An evocative new image sequence from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft offers a departing view of…
New ALMA observations show there is ordinary table salt in a not-so-ordinary location: 1,500 light-years…
New research undertaken at Northumbria University shows that the Sun’s magnetic waves behave differently than…
NASA’s Kepler space telescope may be retired, but the discoveries continue to rack up for…
This dazzling region of newly-forming stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) was captured by…
Two of the planets which are orbiting the star Kepler 107 could be the result…
Long before human ancestors began hunting large mammals for meat, a fatty diet provided them…
Explore the plethora of planets outside our solar system with new multimedia experiences from NASA’s Exoplanet…
Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2018 were the fourth warmest since 1880, according to independent…
Astronomers using ALMA have detected various complex organic molecules around the young star V883 Ori.…
By bombarding an ultrathin semiconductor sandwich with powerful laser pulses, physicists at the University of…
Our Milky Way galaxy’s disk of stars is anything but stable and flat. Instead, it…
This atmospheric image shows a galaxy named Messier 85, captured in all its delicate, hazy…
An old thought experiment now appears in a new light. In 1935 Erwin Schrödinger formulated…
The second law of thermodynamics states that all closed systems tend towards disorder over time…
The universe consists of matter. Matter is everything we see around us. That’s strange –…
The U.S. Midwest has been gripped by the lowest temperatures it has seen in years.…
A giant, spiraling storm in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere is captured in this animation from NASA’s…