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The most visually striking feature on Saturn’s icy moon Tethys is Odysseus crater. An enormous…
Ever since NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft flew past Jupiter in March, 1979, scientists have wondered…
NASA and its partners launched a rocket-borne camera to the edge of space at 2:54…
Supermassive black holes at the nuclei of most galaxies, including our Milky Way, develop gradually…
In the face of climate change, deforestation and biodiversity loss, creating a sustainable version of…
A protein in the brain that binds to alcohol could be the key to curing…
Powerful Earth-observing instruments aboard NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites, launched in 1999 and 2002, respectively,…
Astronomers using ALMA and the VLT have discovered that both starburst galaxies in the early…
A new meta-analysis published in the journal Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases finds that a diet…
Fresh insight into how stars are formed is challenging scientists’ understanding of the Universe. A…
MIT researchers, working with scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, have developed a new way…
New research led by the University of Warwick reveals that globular clusters could be up…
People with a gene variant called APOE4 have a higher risk of developing late-onset Alzheimer’s…
A ripple of bright blue threads through this galaxy like a misshapen lake system. The…
Some of the earliest predators that patrolled the oceans over 500 million years ago are…
Dunes are known to form on Earth, Mars, Venus, Titan, and Comet 67P – and…
Nearly all asteroids are so far away and so small that the astronomical community only…