When NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launches into space from the Kennedy Space Center, it will…
Observations from the Gemini South and other telescopes in Chile played a critical role in…
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have made…
A new study argues that the greatest defining feature of our species is not ‘symbolism’…
On an ancient seafloor, burrowing animals appeared and churned up sediment as a sort of…
Thin, red veins of energized gas mark the location of one of the larger supernova…
Despite over a century of intense study, we still know very little about the people…
Astronomers have identified a group of planets outside our solar system where the same chemical…
When a spacecraft built for humans ventures into deep space, it requires an array of…
NASA’s efforts to better understand asteroid impacts has found unexpected support from a new satellite…
Earthbound detectives rely on fingerprints to solve their cases; now astronomers can do the same,…
Silicon-based system offers smaller, cheaper alternative to other “broadband” filters; could improve a variety of…
In the last several years, 3D printing with plastics has advanced rapidly. Now, a team…
The Robotic Operations Center (ROC) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is full of whirring and…
This image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) shows…
Our Sun’s beginnings are a mystery. It burst into being 4.6 billion years ago, about…
A new study finds that long-term heat therapy may increase mitochondrial function in the muscles.…
Astronomers have made the first definitive detection of a radioactive molecule in interstellar space: a…