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Astronomers have captured one of the most detailed views of a young star taken to…
Researchers at MIT, Draper, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed an ingestible capsule that…
The most comprehensive genomic analysis of the human brain ever undertaken has revealed new insights…
Before electrical power became available, water fountains worked by relying on gravity to channel water…
On Sunday, December 16, the comet known as 46P/Wirtanen will make one of the 10…
Fishermen would be puzzled if they netted only big and little fish, but few medium-sized…
The R Aquarii system is a symbiotic binary star surrounded by a large, dynamic nebula.…
On November 26, NASA’s InSight mission knew the spacecraft touched down within an 81-mile-long (130-kilometer-long)…
Astronomers have cataloged nearly 4,000 exoplanets in orbit around distant stars. Though the discovery of…
The human genome contains regions that “code” for proteins, which means they have instructions to…
On December 21, at 8:49:48 a.m. PST (11:49:48 a.m. EST) NASA’s Juno spacecraft will be…
Researchers have created tiny droplets of the ultra-hot matter that once filled the early universe,…
Yale scientists have taken a novel approach to unraveling the complex structure and regulation of…
3C196.1 is a massive elliptical galaxy, the brightest member of a cluster of galaxies about…
Using satellite observations of Antarctica to search for penguin guano (poo) may not sound like…
NASA’s Voyager 2 has officially exited the heliosphere, entering interstellar space. As the second human-made…
Colorful swirling clouds in Jupiter’s North Equatorial Belt practically fill this image from NASA’s Juno…