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Two of the planets which are orbiting the star Kepler 107 could be the result…
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Explore the plethora of planets outside our solar system with new multimedia experiences from NASA’s Exoplanet…
Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2018 were the fourth warmest since 1880, according to independent…
Astronomers using ALMA have detected various complex organic molecules around the young star V883 Ori.…
By bombarding an ultrathin semiconductor sandwich with powerful laser pulses, physicists at the University of…
Our Milky Way galaxy’s disk of stars is anything but stable and flat. Instead, it…
This atmospheric image shows a galaxy named Messier 85, captured in all its delicate, hazy…
An old thought experiment now appears in a new light. In 1935 Erwin Schrödinger formulated…
The second law of thermodynamics states that all closed systems tend towards disorder over time…
The universe consists of matter. Matter is everything we see around us. That’s strange –…
The U.S. Midwest has been gripped by the lowest temperatures it has seen in years.…
A giant, spiraling storm in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere is captured in this animation from NASA’s…
JILA researchers have measured hundreds of individual quantum energy levels in the buckyball, a spherical…
MIT researchers have developed a new cryptocurrency that drastically reduces the data users need to…
A gigantic cavity — two-thirds the area of Manhattan and almost 1,000 feet (300 meters)…
Scientists have charted the environment surrounding a stellar-mass black hole that is 10 times the…