Pluto-Bound New Horizons Gets a Distant Look at Neptune and Triton
This newly released image of Neptune and its large moon Triton was captured by NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft as it continues on its voyager towards…
This newly released image of Neptune and its large moon Triton was captured by NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft as it continues on its voyager towards…
New images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory show the M5 solar flare that erupted on August 24, 2014. On August 24, 2014, the sun emitted…
Rosetta Spacecraft data have allowed scientists to identify five candidate sites to set down the Philae lander on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in November. Using detailed information…
Engineers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a way to design and fabricate new microscale cushioning materials with a broad range of programmable…
By isolating the spin information from the influence of the outside world in a nanoscale graphene device, physicists have found a way to preserve spin…
Scientists at Seattle Children’s Research Institute have discovered that the dorsal medial habenula region in the brain controls the desire to exercise in mice, possibly…
Scientists from the MRC Center for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh have grown a fully functional organ from scratch in a living animal…
This image of Neptune reveals the Great Dark Spot and its adjacent bright smudge. On the western edge, you can see the swiftly moving bright…
This newly released Hubble Space Telescope image shows a variety of intriguing cosmic phenomena – like a star in the early stages of its life…
An international team of scientists has characterized a new class of materials called protein crystalline frameworks (PCFs). Thanks to certain helper substances, in PCFs proteins…
New research reveals large quantities of water bound up in the rock located deep in the Earth’s mantle. Researchers have found evidence of a potential…
Astronomers used a vast network of radio telescopes to obtain many images of supernova 2014J, revealing a lack of radio emission from the supernova and…
A new experiment at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory revealed a 3D grid of quantum “tornadoes” inside microscopic droplets of supercooled liquid helium, allowing scientists…
A team of scientists from Yale and Columbia universities has shed new light on the mechanics of the division of cells that makes life possible….
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have detected a pair of white dwarf stars that orbit in about 20 minutes and that can be…
The Lunar and Planetary Institute used Voyager’s 1989 historic footage of Neptune’s moon Triton to construct the best-ever global color map of the strange moon….
Chemical engineers from MIT have developed coated tissue scaffolds that help the body grow new bone to repair injuries or congenital defects. MIT chemical engineers…
Using magneto-optical trapping, Yale physicists cooled molecules of strontium monofluoride to 2.5 thousandths of a degree above absolute zero, the lowest temperature yet achieved by…