In 2015, around 4.5 million people died prematurely from diseases attributed to ambient air pollution,…
Like our oceans, today’s continents are brimming with life. Yet billions of years ago, before…
Why do individuals respond differently to the same environment? Researchers from North Carolina State University…
The interstellar object ‘Oumuamua perplexed scientists in October 2017 as it whipped past Earth at…
A new study provides new clues indicating that an exoplanet – that is, a planet…
A binary star system is one that contains a pair of stars orbiting each other.…
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and two other universities have discovered the 13-million-year-old fossils…
For the first time, astronomers have directly observed the magnetism in one of astronomy’s most…
Data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveal complex organic molecules originating from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus,…
Using observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories, an international team of scientists…
Physicists at the University of Innsbruck are on the hunt for nitrogen-containing molecules in space.…
With the combined efforts of three Yale laboratories, researchers conducted the first demonstration of site-specific…
Look up above you. You might see a blue sky, clouds, the Moon, or stars.…
A new family of enzymes has been discovered which paves the way to convert plant…
Sitting between Mars and Jupiter, the doughnut-shaped asteroid belt is packed full of rocky bodies…
Researchers at the University of Bonn and the University of California at Irvine used sophisticated…
How large is a neutron star? Previous estimates varied from eight to sixteen kilometers. Astrophysicists…
In the last decade we have discovered thousands of planets outside our solar system and…