Using data from ESA’s Gaia stellar surveyor, astronomers have identified four stars that are possible…
When a coastal tide rolls out, it can reveal beautiful ripples in the temporarily exposed…
This glittering ball of stars is the globular cluster NGC 1898, which lies towards the…
After decades of conflicting evidence and numerous publications, scientists at international conservation charity ZSL’s Institute…
Ultra-faint, dwarf galaxies are the smallest, most dark matter dominated, and least chemically enriched stellar…
NASA has awarded a contract extension to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) in Cambridge, Massachusetts,…
Clouds in a Jovian jet stream, called Jet N5, swirl in the center of this…
Arctic sea ice likely reached its 2018 lowest extent on September 19 and again on…
The research team of Prof. Massimiliano Esposito of the University of Luxembourg studied the thermodynamics…
A new species of giant dinosaur has been found in South Africa’s Free State Province.…
Every skin cell on the human body is replaced weekly, with stem cells generating billions…
Researchers have found white dwarf stars with masses close to the maximum stable mass (called…
In December 2017, President Donald Trump signed Space Policy Directive-1, in which the president directed…
Since the beginning of civilization, humanity has wondered whether we are alone in the universe.…
Magnetic reconnection, the snapping apart and violent reconnection of magnetic field lines in plasma —…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory views our Sun in ten different wavelengths because each wavelength reveals different solar…
NASA still hasn’t heard from the Opportunity rover, but at least we can see it…
The weird shapes and colors of the tiny Martian moons Phobos and Deimos have inspired…