NASA’s Cassini Views Uranus for the First Time
On April 11, 2014, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took its first-ever image of the planet Uranus, shown in the distance beyond Saturn’s rings. The robotic spacecraft…
On April 11, 2014, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took its first-ever image of the planet Uranus, shown in the distance beyond Saturn’s rings. The robotic spacecraft…
This new composite image of Centaurus A was created with X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, and…
New research based on laboratory experiments shows that Jupiter’s moon Ganymede may have oceans and ice stacked up in multiple layers like a club sandwich….
Scientists have discovered that gamma-ray bursts behave differently than previously thought, changing the theoretical understandings of the afterglows of gamma-ray bursts. Research from an international…
A team of researchers has discovered how to change the crystal structure of graphene, a finding that could lead to smaller and faster microprocessors. A…
New research from the University of Adelaide shows that stem cells from teeth can develop and form complex networks of brain-like cells. University of Adelaide…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a runaway star cluster that is moving at more than two million miles per hour. Cambridge,…
Brookhaven National Laboratory researchers are working to develop ways to synchronize the magnetic spins in nanoscale devices to build tiny signal-generating or receiving antennas and…
Using the Cosmic Web Imager, astronomers from Caltech have obtained the first three-dimensional pictures of the intergalactic medium. Caltech astronomers have taken unprecedented images of…
This newly released image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn’s rings and the shadows they cast on the planet. Saturn’s rings cast shadows on the…
Researchers have discovered a young galaxy, called S0901, rotating in a calm manner typical of more developed galaxies like our own spiral Milky Way. New…
By applying new image processing techniques, astronomers uncovered images of debris disks hidden away in Hubble infrared data taken over a decade ago. With the…
Stanford bioengineers have developed a circuit board modeled on the human brain that can simulate large-scale neural models in real time. Stanford bioengineers have developed…
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute have discovered that the SIRT7 gene plays a central role in energy metabolism, revealing that genetically modified mice that…
Using geochemical meteorite data to understand how the volume of water has changed on Mars over its history, a new study from the Tokyo Institute…
New research from Yale University shows that parts of ancient Antarctica were as warm as today’s California coast, and polar regions of the southern Pacific…
Researchers at Rice University have developed a new flexible energy storage technology that delivers battery-like supercapacitor performance without the lithium found in commercial batteries. A…
Astrophysicists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics examine orbit flips in exoplanet systems, presenting a previously unidentified mechanism whereby such interactions can completely flip the…