Event Horizon Telescope Set to View the Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way
Using the Event Horizon Telescope project, observatories around the world are ready to begin measurements of the black hole at the center of the Milky…
Using the Event Horizon Telescope project, observatories around the world are ready to begin measurements of the black hole at the center of the Milky…
By using an adhesive-like layer of nickel to peel graphene from silicon carbide, engineers at MIT have developed a technique to produce highly conductive wrinkle-free…
The New Horizons Spacecraft, traveling at 32,000 miles (51,500 kilometers) per hour, has reached the halfway point between Pluto and its new Kuiper Belt object…
Although only a sliver of Saturn’s sunlit face is visible in this new Cassini image, the mighty gas giant planet still dominates the view. From…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the new images of the three solar flares. The sun emitted a trio of mid-level solar flares on April 2-3,…
Astronomers have detected the presence of two planets in formation around the young star HD 169142, which is about 470 light-years away. The two planets…
This Hubble image of the week is a composite image of Uranus by Voyager 2 and two different observations made by Hubble — one for…
Astronomers have begun a program to model the stellar winds and magnetic field for active M-dwarf stars, finding that the pressure of the stellar wind…
Scientists at MIT have developed a rubber-like fiber that could be used to study spinal cord neurons and potentially restore function. Implantable fibers have been…
New results from NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft reveal that solar wind and radiation are responsible for stripping the Martian atmosphere, transforming Mars from a planet that…
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered a mysterious flash of X-rays in the Chandra Deep Field-South data. The mysterious X-ray source became 1,000 times brighter…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers searched the remains of a Type Ia supernova for a sun-like star that showed signs of being associated with…
NASA has launched a new website that will allow the public search and download out-of-this-world images, videos and audio files by keyword and metadata searches…
A team of researchers is using a new model to explain the blooms of phytoplankton growing under Arctic sea ice. In 2011, researchers observed something…
At 3 p.m. EDT Tuesday, April 4 NASA will hold a news conference at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to preview the beginning of Cassini’s…
By programming RNA nanoparticles, researchers from MIT have devised a new vaccine candidate for the Zika virus. The vaccine consists of strands of genetic material…
Using Kepler data, Yale astronomers have discovered a Neptune-sized exoplanet – Kepler-150 f. Yale astronomers have discovered a “lost” planet that is nearly the size…
NASA’s Solar Probe Plus will enter the sun’s corona and measure the full force of supersonic solar particles and radiation with a Faraday cup developed…