“Machine Learning” Helps Astronomers Identify Basic Properties of Stars
A newly published study details how astronomers have turned to a method called “machine learning” to help them understand the properties of large numbers of…
NuSTAR Views Colliding Galaxies, Arp 299
This newly released image from NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array shows two colliding galaxies, collectively called Arp 299, located 134 million light-years away. Each of…
Scientists Pinpoint the Position of Saturn
Using a giant array of radio-telescope antennas and data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, astronomers have made the most accurate determinations yet of the position of…
Study Identifies Which Fossil Fuels Must Remain in the Ground to Limit Global Warming
New research led by the University College London shows that a third of oil reserves, half of the gas reserves, and over 80% of current…
Study Shows Diabetes Risk Varies with Mg Intake, Genes and Ethnicity
New research from Brown University investigates the complex interactions between magnesium intake, genes, and ethnicity in determining the risk for type 2 diabetes in African…
Researchers May Have Pinpointed a Strategy for Eliminating Latent HIV
A newly published study shows promise as the future direction for the development of a therapeutic vaccine to clear HIV. A major barrier to finding…
Astronomers Discover a Possible Distant Black Hole Merger
In a newly published study, a team of astronomers detail an unusual repeating light signal from a distant quasar that they say is most likely…
Astronomers Produce the Most Comprehensive Picture of Eta Carinae to Date
A long-term study has combined data from NASA satellites, ground-based observing campaigns and theoretical modeling to produce the most comprehensive picture of Eta Carinae to…
ESO Views Lynds Dark Nebula 483
This newly released ESO image shows Lynds Dark Nebula 483, which is located about 700 light-years away in the constellation of Serpens. Some of the…
HARPS-N Spectrograph Reveals the Composition of Terrestrial Planets
Using the High-Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), astronomers show that the recipe for Earth also applies to terrestrial exoplanets orbiting distant stars. How do…
Astronomers Discover Eight New Planets in “Goldilocks” Zone
Using Kepler data, a team of astronomers has discovered eight new planets orbiting their stars at a distance where liquid water can exist on the…
Onset of Schizophrenia Linked to Elevated Neural Links
New research from Yale scientists, in conjunction with colleagues at the Huaxi Magnetic Resonance Research Center at Sichuan University in China, reveals that the onset…
Volunteers Find 1 Million Potential Debris Disks and YSO Disks
A short video details how volunteers using a NASA-sponsored citizen science website made 1 million potential planetary nursery classifications in less than a year. A…
Kepler Discovers Small Exoplanets
Scientists have validated eight more candidate planets and added another 554 candidates to the roll of potential planets, six of which are near-Earth-size and orbit…
New Drug Delivery Technique Uses Graphene to Deliver Anticancer Drugs
Using graphene strips to deliver anticancer drugs sequentially to cancer cells, researchers are able to target the distinct part of the cell where the drug…
Study Details Why Super-Earths Have Long-Lasting Oceans
A newly published study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals why oceans on super-Earths, once established, can last for billions of years. For life…
Yale Biologists Show Cold Virus Replicates Better at Cooler Temperatures
New research from Yale University shows that the common cold virus can reproduce itself more efficiently in cooler temperatures, reaffirming the popular, yet contested, notion…
COS Observations Show Gas in Fermi Bubbles Moving at 2 Million Miles Per Hour
Using Hubble’s Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, new research presented at the 225th American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle reveals the velocity and composition of gas in…