A team of scientists has calculated the strength of the material deep inside the crust…
The Earth’s magnetosphere contains plasma, an ionized gas composed of positive ions and negative electrons.…
Black holes form when stars die, allowing the matter in them to collapse into an…
Yale scientists have demonstrated a new method to control the behavior of light on a…
An unusual infrared light emission from a nearby neutron star detected by NASA’s Hubble Space…
Astronomers believe two of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way—the Large and Small Magellanic…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_nFz_vYzio A three-dimensional map showing an actin filament (blue) bound to a fragment of the…
NASA’s newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is now providing valuable data…
In the northern constellation of Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair) lies the impressive Coma Cluster — a…
Subtropical gyres are huge, sustained currents spanning thousands of kilometers across the Pacific and Atlantic…
Insect pollination played an important role in the evolution of angiosperms. Little is known, however,…
Stars frequently form in crowded environments. By combining the resources of multi-wavelength missions like Chandra…
Astronomers from Durham University and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have found evidence that…
A study in the journal Bulletin of Marine Science describes a new, blood-red species of…
Three hundred and ten miles above our planet’s surface, near-Earth space is abuzz with action.…
A long, brown oval known as a “brown barge” in Jupiter’s South Equatorial Belt is…
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has started a new mission to shed light on the…
All cells in the body have the basic ability to protect themselves from infection, called…