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…
NASA’s MarCO mission was designed to find out if briefcase-sized spacecraft called CubeSats could survive…
Neural networks enable learning of error correction strategies for computers based on quantum physics Quantum…
An international collaboration led by scientists at Yale has cracked a tough nut in multiple…
This Picture of the Week shows the unbarred spiral galaxy NGC 5033, located about 40…
In the fight against drug-resistant bacteria, MIT researchers have enlisted the help of beneficial bacteria…
This glittering ball of stars is the globular cluster NGC 1898, which lies toward the…
The word “HAZMAT” describes substances that pose a risk to the environment, or even to…
One year ago this week astronomers discovered an unusual object moving through space not too…
Long ago, sky watchers linked the brightest stars into patterns reflecting animals, heroes, monsters and…
Scientists have confirmed the identity of the youngest known pulsar in the Milky Way galaxy…
In October 2018, we’re launching the Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, to study Earth’s dynamic…
A new study suggests that many theorized heavy particles, if they exist at all, do…
Collimated jets provide astronomers with some of the most powerful evidence that a supermassive black…