Most galaxies host supermassive black holes at their nuclei, each with millions or billions of…
Data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which explored the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule earlier…
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Ultima Thule in the early hours of New Year’s…
At 2:43 p.m. EST on December 31, while many on Earth prepared to welcome the…
Scientists from NASA’s New Horizons mission released the first detailed images of the most distant…
An outstanding question in dermatology that researchers have studied for decades is: How do hair…
For the first time, researchers from MIT and elsewhere have recorded the “temporal coherence” of…
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the smoking gun of a newborn star, the…
ESA’s technical center in the Netherlands has begun running a pulsar-based clock. The ‘PulChron’ system…
Anxiety disorders are severe mental disorders in which patients suffer from intense fears and anxiety…
Sugar can silence a key protein required for colonization by a gut bacterium associated with…
Cassiopeia A, the youngest known supernova remnant in the Milky Way, is the remains of…
While testing a new subsystem on the SPHERE planet-hunting instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope,…
Scientists have carried out a closer analysis of previously recorded data from the LIGO and…
Kazan University physicists created a refined simulation of a joint reception area of meteor radio…
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals an ancient, glimmering ball of stars…
As the brilliant comet 46P/Wirtanen streaked across the sky, NASA telescopes caught it on camera…
The existence of black holes is well established, and observations have found both stellar mass…