Rocket-Launched Hi-C Camera Captures Detailed Images of the Solar Corona
A team of scientists used a sounding rocket to launch NASA’s High Resolution Coronal Imager, capturing images of the solar corona five times sharper than…
A team of scientists used a sounding rocket to launch NASA’s High Resolution Coronal Imager, capturing images of the solar corona five times sharper than…
Newly published research details how a better understanding of the glymphatic system and its process of slowing down as we age may result in new…
Research presented at the 2013 RAS National Astronomy Meeting describes a new quasar microlensing technique that should allow astronomers to better map out the internal…
After a decade of service, operators at Orbital Sciences Corporation sent the signal to decommission NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer. NASA has turned off its Galaxy…
A newly published study describes recent observations of the remnant of a stellar collision, revealing that the remnant of the stripped red giant is a…
Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have imaged the atom-by-atom structure of the ribosome attached to a molecule that controls its motion for the…
A newly published study shows that white blood cells and cancer cells can fuse and initiate a tumor, providing the first proof in humans of…
New fiber optic technology from researchers at Boston University and the University of Southern California could ease Internet congestion and boost Internet bandwidth. As rapidly…
Using data from Gemini Observatory’s Planet-Finding Campaign, several new studies reveal the nature of gas-giant exoplanets, finding that they tend to dwell near their parent…
Now more than 18 billion kilometers away from Earth, NASA’s Voyager 1 is close to entering interstellar space. Using data from the spacecraft’s journey, several…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute used some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world to generate elaborate computer simulations showing the violent birth…
A newly published study from the University of Colorado suggests that spiral galaxies, like the Milky Way, are larger than previously thought. Let’s all fist…
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered new details about the remains of a supernova that is the most recent, in Earth’s time frame,…
A team of astronomers have discovered two planets (Kepler-66b and Kepler-67b) that are about three-fourths the size of Neptune orbiting Sun-like stars 3,000 light-years from…
In a newly published study, the Planetary Sciences Group of the University of the Basque Country explains the nature of the giant storms on Saturn….
Researchers have now discovered 10,000 near-Earth asteroids and comets, with the 10,000th being a 1,000-foot (300-meter) asteroid called 2013 MZ5. More than 10,000 asteroids and…
A newly published study details how researchers used a process called durotaxis to move water droplets. The finding may reveal more about the contrast between…
Idaho State University researchers have created uranium crystals by crushing nuclear fuel pellets and heating them in a furnace. This will allow scientists to be…