Researchers have successfully recovered and analyzed ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies dating from approximately 1400 BCE to 400 CE, including the first genome-wide nuclear data…
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has identified bright areas in craters near our moon’s south pole that are cold enough to have frost present on…
New data from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft reveals evidence that the active south polar region of Enceladus — the fractured terrain seen here at bottom —…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft captures a close-up view of the Keeler Gap. Before Cassini entered its Grand Finale orbits, it acquired unprecedented views of the outer…
In a newly published study, researchers from Harvard University, Sandia National Laboratories, and MIT reveal a new technique for creating targeted defects in diamond materials….
New research from Yale University shows that activating neurons in an area of the brain not previously associated with feeding can produce binge-eating behavior in…
A team of astronomers has put a basic principle of black holes to the test, showing that matter completely vanishes when pulled in. Their results…
This Hubble image of the week shows the Vermin Galaxy as it began its transit behind star HD 107146. The galaxy will not be fully…
A team of astronomers has discovered a new kind of galaxy in the early universe, less than a billion years after the Big Bang. These…
A new NASA mission is headed for the International Space Station next month to observe one of the strangest observable objects in the universe. The…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) saw a partial solar eclipse in space when it caught the moon passing in front of the sun on May…
The first science results from NASA’s Juno Mission are in and they portray Jupiter as a complex, gigantic, and turbulent world. The planet has Earth-sized…
Using data from the Large Binocular Telescope and NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, astronomers watched as a dying star was likely reborn as a…
A new NASA study published in Geophysical Research Letters reveals that during Greenland’s hottest summers on record, 2010 and 2012, the ice in Rink Glacier…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft views the Saturnian solstice, which occurs about every 15 Earth years as the planet and its entourage slowly orbit the sun. NASA’s…
Scientists reveal that planet-sized bodies can form a new, much larger structure called a synestia – an indented disk rather like a red blood cell…
Using the Hornet and SuperMUC supercomputers in Germany and a state-of-the-art code, a team of scientists has helped uncover the history of the galaxy. Thousands…
For the first time, researchers have generated blood-forming stem cells in the lab using pluripotent stem cells, which can make virtually every cell type in…