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…
New research led by the University of Warwick reveals that globular clusters could be up…
People with a gene variant called APOE4 have a higher risk of developing late-onset Alzheimer’s…
A ripple of bright blue threads through this galaxy like a misshapen lake system. The…
Some of the earliest predators that patrolled the oceans over 500 million years ago are…
Dunes are known to form on Earth, Mars, Venus, Titan, and Comet 67P – and…
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…