The North Star, Polaris, is a Cepheid variable: one whose mass, age and physical conditions…
After snagging a new rock sample on August 9, NASA’s Curiosity rover surveyed its surroundings…
Over a mere four days this summer, snow from the previous winter melted into a…
Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to discover a ring of black holes or…
Wolf 503b, an exoplanet twice the size of Earth, has been discovered by an international…
Many men suffering from advanced-stage prostate cancer appear to share at least one thing in…
Nearly 150 years ago, the physicist James Maxwell proposed that a circular lens that is…
Yale University researchers have demonstrated one of the key steps in building the architecture for…
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will host a live-streamed Science Chat at 2 p.m. EDT…
The long-lived international Cassini mission has revealed a surprising feature emerging at Saturn’s northern pole…
A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has been used to observe radiation from cosmic…
At the end of its life, a red supergiant star explodes in a hydrogen-rich supernova.…
Without special instrumentation, the Sun looks calm and inert. But beneath that placid façade are…
A new study says pink noise may be the key to separating out natural climate…
Early in 2017, Assistant Professor Yoko Oya gave graduate student Yuki Okoda some recent complex…
The quest to find new ways to harness solar power has taken a step forward…
An international team of researchers has proposed a new method to investigate the inner workings…
One of the most common complications of sickle-cell disease occurs when deformed red blood cells…