Three billion miles away on the farthest known major planet in our solar system, an…
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Human cases of Borrelia miyamotoi, a tick-borne infection with some similarities to Lyme disease, were…
High-resolution observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) imaged a rotating dusty gas torus…
Scientists at Imperial College London have become the first in the world to test how…
If they existed, axions – one of the candidates for particles of the mysterious dark…
The year 2017 was a record-breaking one for Operation IceBridge, NASA’s aerial survey of the…
Saturn’s moon Enceladus drifts before the rings and the tiny moon Pandora in this view…
As NASA sets its sights on returning to the Moon, and preparing for Mars, the…
As part of an engineering test, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this image of the Earth…
Integrating nanoscale fibers such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) into commercial applications, from coatings for aircraft…
Most recent advances in artificial-intelligence systems such as speech- or face-recognition programs have come courtesy…
Human cancers often have a little recognized ally — the increased size and number of…
A hole at the heart of a stunning rose-like interstellar cloud has puzzled astronomers for…
Twenty-five years of satellite data prove climate models are correct in predicting that sea levels…
Researchers have designed a new LED-based train headlight that uses a tenth of the energy…
This ghostly image features a distant and pulsating red giant star known as R Sculptoris.…