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…
DNA is packaged tightly within the cell’s nuclear membranes, which contain channels that regulate the…
The brains of people with type 1 diabetes react differently to low blood sugar compared…
The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10-meter-diameter telescope in the Antarctic that has been…
A dark cloud of cosmic dust snakes across this spectacular wide field image, illuminated by…
Using quantum chemical methods, a team of researchers led by Dr. Matthias Granold and Professor…
New research has demonstrated how the nano-architecture of a silkworm’s fiber causes “Anderson localization of…
Astrophysicists from Heidelberg, Garching, and the USA present the thus far largest and most detailed…
MIT today announced the launch of the MIT Intelligence Quest, an initiative to discover the…
All DNA is sealed within the cell’s nuclear membrane, which protects it from molecular marauders.…
A new self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle on Vera Rubin Ridge,…
Data from NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have been combined to show this image…
High concentrations of heavy metals, like copper and gold, are toxic for most living creatures.…