Few of the universe’s residents are as iconic as the spiral galaxy. These limelight-hogging celestial…
Astronomers have put together the largest and most comprehensive “history book” of galaxies into one…
Sperm start their sprint to the ovum when they detect changes in the environment through…
X-ray observations have found copious amounts of very hot gas in galaxy clusters, and in…
Observers watching January’s total eclipse of the Moon saw a rare event, a short-lived flash…
The study of a tiny grain of stardust — older than our solar system —…
Small stellar systems like dwarf galaxies are suggested to be the main building blocks of…
For more than a century, scientists have squabbled over how the Earth’s moon formed. But…
This final traverse map for NASA’s Opportunity rover shows where the rover was located within…
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope say they have crossed an important threshold in revealing…
The crab family just got a bunch of new cousins, including a 95-million-year-old species that…
How do you observe a process that takes more than one trillion times longer than…
Cerberus Fossae is a steep-sided set of troughs cutting volcanic plains to the east of…
Most everybody is familiar with the Big Bang — the notion that an impossibly hot,…
This sparkling burst of stars is Messier 75. It is a globular cluster: a spherical…
This incredible image of the hourglass-shaped Southern Crab Nebula was taken to mark the NASA/ESA…
Scientists in the VERITAS (Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System) Collaboration have published a…
For the first time, Yale physicists have directly observed quantum behavior in the vibrations of…