NASA’s Curiosity rover has found new evidence preserved in rocks on Mars that suggests the…
Newly discovered dunes on Pluto tell us the dwarf planet’s geology and atmosphere is far…
Chandra observations indicate the two brightest stars in Alpha Centauri are not pummeling any orbiting…
NASA has approved an update to Juno’s science operations until July 2021. This provides for…
A new way of enhancing the interactions between light and matter, developed by researchers at…
Diversity in bacteria — and in all forms of life — ensures the ability to…
What happens when the solar wind suddenly starts to blow significantly harder? According to two…
The most visually striking feature on Saturn’s icy moon Tethys is Odysseus crater. An enormous…
Ever since NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft flew past Jupiter in March, 1979, scientists have wondered…
NASA and its partners launched a rocket-borne camera to the edge of space at 2:54…
Supermassive black holes at the nuclei of most galaxies, including our Milky Way, develop gradually…
In the face of climate change, deforestation and biodiversity loss, creating a sustainable version of…
A protein in the brain that binds to alcohol could be the key to curing…
Powerful Earth-observing instruments aboard NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites, launched in 1999 and 2002, respectively,…
Astronomers using ALMA and the VLT have discovered that both starburst galaxies in the early…
A new meta-analysis published in the journal Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases finds that a diet…
Fresh insight into how stars are formed is challenging scientists’ understanding of the Universe. A…
MIT researchers, working with scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, have developed a new way…