Researchers at the Yale School of Public Health have discovered a mathematical relationship that sheds…
Polarimetric investigation of a near-Earth asteroid Phaethon was carried out in December 2017 on its…
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope doesn’t usually get much assistance from its celestial subjects —…
In the early hours of September 7, NASA broke a world record. Less than 2…
Since September 13, ESA’s Mars Express has been observing the evolution of an elongated cloud…
A swirling, oval white cloud in Jupiter’s South South Temperate Belt is captured in this…
Powerful gushers of energy from seething stars can sculpt eerie-looking figures with long, flowing veils…
The planets so far discovered across the Milky Way are a motley, teeming multitude: hot…
FORS2, an instrument mounted on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, has observed the active star-forming region…
Today, NASA released a new, limited-edition podcast called The Invisible Network, the first NASA podcast to…
Massive structures of moving air that appear like waves in Jupiter’s atmosphere were first detected…
An international team of astronomers have discovered two stars in a binary pair that complete…
A radical new approach combining archaeology, genetics, and microscopy can reveal long-forgotten secrets of human…
Operation IceBridge, NASA’s longest-running aerial survey of polar ice, flew over the northern Antarctic Peninsula…
This image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Cat’s Paw Nebula, so named for…
Twenty years ago, scientists were shocked to realize that our universe is not only expanding,…
Neurons in the human brain receive electrical signals from thousands of other cells, and long…
The single most important puzzle in today’s cosmology (the study of the universe as a…