Nearly all asteroids are so far away and so small that the astronomical community only…
Though it resembles a peaceful rose swirling in the darkness of the cosmos, NGC 3256…
See a jet stream speeding through Jupiter’s atmosphere in this new view taken by NASA’s…
Yale scientists have identified a possible neurobiological home for the spiritual experience — the sense…
To study the most extreme objects in the Universe, astronomers sometimes have to go to…
Astronomers have proposed a new model for the invisible material that makes up most of…
Off the coast of Hawaii’s Big Island and more than 3,000 feet (900 meters) beneath…
Astronomers have discovered a special kind of neutron star for the first time outside of…
Astronomers have discovered evidence for thousands of black holes located near the center of our…
It’s a puzzle that has confounded biologists for centuries: the earth’s tropical regions are home…
Nanoscientists at Northwestern University have developed a blueprint to fabricate new heterostructures from different types…
Researchers from North Carolina State University have synthesized an analog of lipoxazolidinone A, a small…
Dr. Jane Lixin Dai, theoretical astrophysicist and assistant professor, and Prof. Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, both from…
Glowing brightly about 160,000 light-years away, the Tarantula Nebula is the most spectacular feature of…
A group of scientists led by researchers from the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science…
Models of wetter conditions than contemporary climate suggest human ancestors lived in environments other than…
Even after the direct measurement of their gravitational waves, there are still mysteries surrounding black…
Nanoparticles carrying two drugs can cross the blood-brain barrier and shrink glioblastoma tumors. Glioblastoma multiforme,…