New NASA research confirms that Saturn is losing its iconic rings at the maximum rate…
A team of astronomers has discovered the most-distant body ever observed in our Solar System.…
A series of new CubeSats now are in space, conducting a variety of scientific investigations…
For three weeks in October, Hubble’s eyes on the Universe closed. On the evening of…
A cheap and effective new catalyst developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley,…
Paleontologists from Russia have described a new dinosaur, the Volgatitan. Seven of its vertebrae, which…
In the world of quantum computing, interaction is everything. For computers to work at all,…
Astronomers have captured one of the most detailed views of a young star taken to…
Researchers at MIT, Draper, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed an ingestible capsule that…
The most comprehensive genomic analysis of the human brain ever undertaken has revealed new insights…
Before electrical power became available, water fountains worked by relying on gravity to channel water…
On Sunday, December 16, the comet known as 46P/Wirtanen will make one of the 10…
Fishermen would be puzzled if they netted only big and little fish, but few medium-sized…
The R Aquarii system is a symbiotic binary star surrounded by a large, dynamic nebula.…
On November 26, NASA’s InSight mission knew the spacecraft touched down within an 81-mile-long (130-kilometer-long)…
Astronomers have cataloged nearly 4,000 exoplanets in orbit around distant stars. Though the discovery of…
The human genome contains regions that “code” for proteins, which means they have instructions to…
On December 21, at 8:49:48 a.m. PST (11:49:48 a.m. EST) NASA’s Juno spacecraft will be…