As the brilliant comet 46P/Wirtanen streaked across the sky, NASA telescopes caught it on camera…
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A new look at Hubble images of galaxies could be a step toward illuminating the…
Researchers at the Universities of Zurich and Cambridge have discovered a new, exotic class of…
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MIT chemical engineers and neuroscientists have devised a new way to preserve biological tissue, allowing…
The remarkable exoplanet discoveries made by the Kepler and K2 missions have enabled astronomers to…
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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…
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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…