HD 106906b Reveals Insights Into How Planets Evolve
New research suggests that HD 106906b formed outside the debris disk, where it’s visible today, as opposed to having been formed inside the debris disk…
New research suggests that HD 106906b formed outside the debris disk, where it’s visible today, as opposed to having been formed inside the debris disk…
A supermassive black hole inside the tiny galaxy Was 49b is challenging astronomers’ ideas about what happens when two galaxies become one. Was 49 is…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft is set to make its fifth flyby over Jupiter’s mysterious cloud tops on Monday, March 27. At the time of closest approach…
This newly released Hubble image of the week shows NGC 4424 and LEDA 213994. Some astronomical objects have endearing or quirky nicknames, inspired by mythology…
Using a self-assembly technique in which materials known as block copolymers are covered by a second polymer, scientists have found a long-awaited, simple method for…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers reveal a supermassive black hole that has been propelled out of the center of the distant galaxy 3C186. The…
Astronomers have identified a brown dwarf that was formed about 10 billion years ago and is made of gas that is around 250 times purer…
Researchers from Yale University have identified how the molecule DNA2 helps begin the complex process of repairing breaks in DNA that can cause chromosome rearrangements…
This newly released image from HiRISE shows sand dunes in the Southern hemisphere of Mars. Sand dunes are scattered across Mars and one of the…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics identifies exomoons as a likely source of the apparent accretion of rocky material onto some white dwarf…
A newly published study from UCLA focuses on cellular activity in the striatum, a part of the brain associated with reward, movement and decision-making. The…
For a 15 day stretch beginning on March 7, 2017, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory returned visible light images of a yolk-like spotless sun. This is…
This newly released HiRISE image shows gullies on the surface of Mars. This is an odd-looking image. It shows gullies during the winter while entirely…
A team of researchers from MIT has developed a way to make tumor cells more susceptible to certain types of cancer treatment by coating the…
MIT neuroscientists identify the brain circuit that drives pleasure-inducing behavior in a brain region thought to be linked with fear. Scientists have long believed that…
Scientists examine the axial tilt of Ceres, finding a correlation between craters that stay in shadow at maximum obliquity and bright deposits that are likely…
The Rosetta mission has documented remarkable changes on the surface of Comet 67P, revealing growing fractures, collapsing cliffs, rolling boulders, and moving material. Images returned…
This new HiRISE Image shows the hills of Juventae Chasma on Mars. There are many hills about 1 kilometer (3,280 feet) high in Juventae Chasma,…