New microgravity research finds that microparticles in complex plasma behave in nonuniform ways around varying…
A glittering host of galaxies populate this rich image taken with ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope,…
The Columbia Glacier descends from an ice field 10,000 feet (3,050 meters) above sea level, down the flanks…
MIT chemical engineers have developed a new sensor that lets them see inside cancer cells…
Forty-four planets in solar systems beyond our own have been unveiled in one go, dwarfing…
Listening to electro-magnetic waves around the Earth, converted to sound, is almost like listening to…
Before NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) started science operations on July 25, 2018, the…
An international team of paleontologists and other geoscientists has discovered the first North American co-occurrence…
In the search for obesity treatments, scientists recently zeroed in on a gene known as…
When people think of the Arctic, snow, ice and polar bears come to mind. Trees?…
This Picture of the Week shows the colorful globular cluster NGC 2108. The cluster is…
What happens when a star behaves like it exploded, but it’s still there? About 170…
A team of UCLA electrical and computer engineers has created a physical artificial neural network…
They’re impossible to see with the naked eye. They’re difficult to pronounce. But coccolithophores, a…
Rice University researchers have found that fracture-resistant “rebar graphene” is more than twice as tough…
Researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and collaborators have identified a way to…
GW170817 is the name given to a gravitational wave signal seen by the LIGO and…
When NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launches into space from the Kennedy Space Center, it will…