The planet Mars has long drawn interest from scientists and non-scientists as a possible place…
In the year since NASA announced the seven Earth-sized planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system, scientists…
Simple motion inside biological cells, such as the streaming of cytoplasm – the liquid cell…
In deep space, accurate timekeeping is vital to navigation, but not all spacecraft have precise…
In this view, Saturn’s icy moon Rhea passes in front of Titan as seen by…
Move over, lithium-ion; now, there’s a better battery on the horizon. A multi-institution team of…
Like all organisms, plants are associated with bacterial communities in which helpful and harmful bacteria…
Research on HIV over the past decade has led to many promising ideas for vaccines…
How do viruses that cause chronic infections, such as HIV or hepatitis c virus, manage…
A new study has found that the seven planets orbiting the nearby ultra-cool dwarf star…
For decades, materials scientists have taken inspiration from the natural world. They’ll identify a biological…
Worlds in the star’s habitable zone are not smothered under primordial atmospheres Only 40 light-years…
NASA’s former chief exploration scientist, Michael Wargo, has been posthumously honored with the distinction of…
Roughly 50 million light-years away lies a somewhat overlooked little galaxy named NGC 1559. Pictured…
A University of Oklahoma astrophysics team has discovered for the first time a population of…
The world’s fastest land animal, the cheetah, is a successful hunter not only because it…
A new international study involving The Australian National University (ANU) has found a plane of…
A slab of sandstone discovered at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center contains at least 70…