Astronomers Solve the Mystery of Pluto’s Giant Blades of Ice
New research reveals that the strange formations on Pluto’s surface are made almost entirely of methane ice, and likely formed as a specific kind of…
Study Shows Parkinson’s Disease Involves Degeneration of the Olfactory System
A newly published study from the Max Planck Institute compares the olfactory bulbs of individuals with and without Parkinson’s disease, revealing that the total volume…
New ESO Image of Spiral Galaxy NGC 1964
This newly released ESO image shows spiral galaxy NGC 1964, which resides approximately 70 million light-years away in the constellation of Lepus (The Hare). NGC…
ESOcast 128: How Astronomers Look at the Universe and Why They Need ALMA
This short ESOcast video explains why astronomers need radio telescopes like ALMA to understand phenomena in some of the dustiest and most distant regions of…
New Simple Device Uses Sound Waves to Store Quantum Information
Researchers at Yale University have developed a simple device that uses sound waves to store quantum information and convert it from one form to another,…
Cassini Views the Brightly Lit Limb of a Crescent Enceladus
This Cassini Spacecraft image show the brightly lit limb of a crescent Enceladus looks ethereal against the blackness of space. The rest of the moon,…
Parker Solar Probe Will Fly Directly Through the Sun’s Atmosphere
Next Summer NASA will launch the Parker Solar Probe, a spacecraft that will get closer to the Sun than any other in human history. Parker…
Hubble Telescope Image of the Week – Galaxy ESO 376-16
This Hubble Space Telescope image of the week shows galaxy ESO 376-16, which is located roughly 23 million light-years from Earth. The distances to objects…
NASA Explains Space Radiation and Its Effects on the Human Body
NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP) is investigating charged particles to solve one of its biggest challenges for a human journey to Mars: space radiation and…
MIT Study Predicts Thresholds for a Sixth Mass Extinction
According to a newly published study from MIT, Earth’s oceans may hold enough carbon to launch mass extinction of species in future millennia. In the…
Juno Spacecraft Image From Its Eighth Flyby of Jupiter
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft captured this striking image of Jupiter as it performed its eighth flyby of the gas giant planet. The image was taken on…
JVLA Details the Structure of the Mini-Halo in the Perseus Cluster
Using radio and X-ray data, astronomers reveal that the mini-halo in the Perseus cluster seems to be influenced both by the AGN activity and the…
New Flexible Cooling Device Could Provide Efficient Cooling for Mobile Electronics
A team of researchers has made the first demonstration of a solid state cooling device based on the electrocaloric effect. This thin flexible device that…
Copper Nanoparticles Yield High Efficiency CO2-to-Fuels Conversion
New research details how an electrocatalyst made up of copper nanoparticles provides the conditions necessary to break down carbon dioxide to form ethylene, ethanol, and…
Defects In Metal Oxides May Be Key To Their Performance
A newly published study details how defects in metal oxides may be key to their performance for a variety of high-tech applications. Sometimes things that…
Fast Radio Bursts Should Occur Over the Entire Observable Universe
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that fast radio bursts should occur over the entire observable universe, with at least one FRB…
Hubble Telescope Discovers a Binary Main-Belt Comet
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers discovered two asteroids orbiting each other that have comet-like features in the asteroid belt. These include a bright halo…
Milky Way Might Not Be as “Typical” as Previously Thought
New research from Yale University and the Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA) Survey reveals that the Milky Way might not be as “typical” as previously…