After a nearly twenty-year-long game of cosmic hide-and-seek, astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory have…
This image captures swirling cloud belts and tumultuous vortices within Jupiter’s northern hemisphere. NASA’s Juno…
Before NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew through the Pluto system in July 2015, many New…
Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have analyzed data from K2, the follow-up mission to NASA’s…
Archaeologists at Lund University in Sweden have found carbonized germinated grains showing that malt was…
Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, and the NASA/ESA…
The central black holes may be the driving force in how much star formation occurs…
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that a protein called Munc13-4 helps cancer…
Sand dunes often accumulate in the floors of craters. In this region of Lyot Crater,…
A storm of tiny dust particles has engulfed much of Mars over the last two…
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have helped to find the last reservoir of…
With the integration of a rudimentary metabolic function into a tiny droplet, a step has…
The Moon begins to rise behind the ARADS rover during the 2017 season of field…
Scientists have shown that at the Anzick site in Montana – the only known Clovis…
Theoretical physicists calculate the origin of a high-energy particle track captured by the IceCube Neutrino…
Researchers at MIT, who last year designed a tiny computer chip tailored to help honeybee-sized…
One of three epilepsy patients experience no relief from drugs and are candidates for surgery.…
For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the formation and expansion of a fast-moving…