An exoplanet the size of Neptune has been discovered around the young star AU Microscopii,…
The spiral pattern shown by the galaxy in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is…
Healthy obesity begins where metabolic disorders emerge: Vascular-adipose interaction enables a selective fat storage in…
A 50-year-old theory that began as speculation about how an alien civilization could use a…
Study finds simple changes in road resurfacing practices could improve gas mileage for heavy vehicles…
HKU super steel project attains major breakthrough with collaborators at Berkeley Lab in producing high…
Astronomers have made the first measurement of spin-orbit alignment for a distant ‘super-Jupiter’ planet, demonstrating…
Smart phone apps provide nearly instantaneous navigation on Earth; the Deep Space Atomic Clock could…
A team of researchers simulated conditions on water-rich exoplanets in the laboratory and learned something…
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) instrument identified the 4000th comet…
In orbit for more than a decade, ESA’s Earth Explorer satellite SMOS has not only…
A new symmetry-broken parent state discovered in twisted bilayer graphene. In 2018 it was discovered…
In an unprecedented collaboration, ESA, NASA and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) have created a…
For decades astronomers have been puzzled by a gap that lies between neutron stars and…
The Andes mountains, in southern Peru, are featured in this false-color image captured by the…
The measles virus may have emerged as early as the 6th century BCE, an international…
Dust storms from Africa’s Saharan Desert traveling across the Atlantic Ocean are nothing new, but…
Moving at eight kilometers (five miles) per second, the International Space Station (ISS) circles our…