New Technique to Search Space Dust for Molecules Critical for Life
Researchers at Goddard’s Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory have developed a new technique to search space dust for molecules that are critical for life. While the origin…
Researchers at Goddard’s Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory have developed a new technique to search space dust for molecules that are critical for life. While the origin…
A new four-minute ScienceCast video explores the strange quantum realm of NASA’s new Cold Atom Lab, the place where researchers are planning to create the…
A newly published study states that searching for life on Earth-like planets may be a mistake and details why scientists need to consider non-Earth-like “superhabitable”…
New research from the University of Bristol reveals how circumbinary planets form. Like the fictional Star Wars planet, Kepler-34(AB)b is a circumbinary planet, so-called because…
This newly released Hubble image reveals star formation within the Chamaeleon cloud. This striking new image, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, reveals…
Astronomers have reconstructed the short-lived nova explosion from white dwarf MAXI J0158−744, revealing for the first time the runaway fusion reaction that triggered the blast….
Researchers from Yale University have identified a major obstacle to converting cells back to their youthful state — the speed of the cell cycle, or…
A new method of using centrifugal force to decelerate particles makes it possible to produce relatively large quantities of cold molecules in a continuous flow,…
New images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory show a partial solar eclipse from space. On January 30, 2014, beginning at 8:31 a.m. EST, the moon…
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute have discovered a new link between processes associated with a Parkinson’s-related gene defect, paving the way to the development…
ESO’s Very Large Telescope has charted the first ever map of the weather on the surface of a Brown Dwarf. An international team has made…
An international group of physicists has created, identified, and photographed synthetic magnetic monopoles, paving the way for the detection of the particles in nature. Amherst,…
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer views stellar formation in the Trifid nebula, which is located 5,400 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. A storm of…
A newly published study details how massive galaxies were formed by explosive star formation that was set in motion by the collision of galaxies a…
Scientists have developed a new, inexpensive material that has the potential to convert solar energy more efficiently than ever before. Argonne, Illinois — Getting the…
Astronomers used the Subaru Telescope to study active supermassive black holes in merging galaxies, revealing that local physical conditions near SMBHs rather than general properties…
Astronomers are preparing for Comet Siding Spring, which will pass Mars at a distance 10 times closer than any identified comet has ever flown past…
Researchers from Brown University have produced the first experimental evidence that a one-atom-thick “borophene” structure is possible. Providence, Rhode Island (Brown University) — Researchers from…