A new simulation of supermassive black holes–the behemoths at the centers of galaxies–uses a realistic…
“We started out analyzing 275 candidates of which 149 were validated as real exoplanets. In…
A small group of cells in the brain can have a big effect on seizures…
Three billion miles away on the farthest known major planet in our solar system, an…
The biggest black holes in the Universe are growing faster than the rate of stars…
Fragile X syndrome is the most frequent cause of intellectual disability in males, affecting one…
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…