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…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the most ambitious and complex space observatory ever built, will…
In the center of the galaxy OJ 287, there is one active, super-mass-rich black hole.…
Researchers at Oregon State University and Oregon Health & Science University are working on a…
Our brains are famously flexible, or “plastic,” because neurons can do new things by forging…
This rich and dense smattering of stars is a massive globular cluster, a gravitationally-bound collection…