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…
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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…
On its final flyby of Saturn’s largest moon in 2017, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft gathered radar…
The first type of molecule that ever formed in the universe has been detected in…
Circulation and cellular activity were restored in a pig’s brain four hours after its death,…
Most globular clusters are almost perfectly spherical collections of stars — but Messier 62 breaks…
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) — a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes forged…
An international team of researchers has uncovered the remains of a new species of human…
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The closest exoplanet to us, if we include only single stars like the Sun, is…