Scientists Show Sun’s Magnetic Waves Behave Differently Than Believed
New research undertaken at Northumbria University shows that the Sun’s magnetic waves behave differently than currently believed. Their findings have been reported in the latest…
Kepler’s Final Image Reveals A Galaxy Full Of Possibilities
NASA’s Kepler space telescope may be retired, but the discoveries continue to rack up for this historic planet-hunting mission. Kepler rang in the new year…
ESO Captures Dazzling Image of Newly-Forming Stars in the LMC
This dazzling region of newly-forming stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) was captured by the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer instrument (MUSE) on ESO’s Very…
Researchers Discover Planet-Forming Collision in Kepler 107 System
Two of the planets which are orbiting the star Kepler 107 could be the result of an impact similar to that which affected the Earth…
Scientists Reveal How a Fatty Diet Helped Develop Bigger Brains
Long before human ancestors began hunting large mammals for meat, a fatty diet provided them with the nutrition to develop bigger brains, posits a new…
Explore Alien Exoplanets with New Multimedia Treats
Explore the plethora of planets outside our solar system with new multimedia experiences from NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP). In addition to a new Exoplanet Travel Bureau…
NASA Confirms 2018 Fourth Warmest Year in Continued Warming Trend
Earth’s global surface temperatures in 2018 were the fourth warmest since 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…
ALMA Reveals Complex Organic Molecules Around a Young Star
Astronomers using ALMA have detected various complex organic molecules around the young star V883 Ori. A sudden outburst from this star is releasing molecules from…
Physicists Create First “Electron Liquid” at Room Temperature
By bombarding an ultrathin semiconductor sandwich with powerful laser pulses, physicists at the University of California, Riverside, have created the first “electron liquid” at room…
Astronomers Reveal a Warped and Twisted Milky Way
Our Milky Way galaxy’s disk of stars is anything but stable and flat. Instead, it becomes increasingly ‘warped’ and twisted far away from the Milky…
Hubble Image of the Week – The Darkness Within?
This atmospheric image shows a galaxy named Messier 85, captured in all its delicate, hazy glory by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Messier 85 slants…
Scientists Realize Optical Version of Schrödinger’s Thought Experiment
An old thought experiment now appears in a new light. In 1935 Erwin Schrödinger formulated a thought experiment designed to capture the paradoxical nature of…
New Approach Allows Deeper Understanding of Biological Signaling Systems
The second law of thermodynamics states that all closed systems tend towards disorder over time and maintain order through the expenditure of energy. In most…
Imbalance Between Matter and Antimatter Helps Explain Our Existence
The universe consists of matter. Matter is everything we see around us. That’s strange – but why? In theory, there should also be large amounts…
NASA’s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder Captures Movement of Polar Vortex
The U.S. Midwest has been gripped by the lowest temperatures it has seen in years. An unusually cold Arctic air mass, called a polar vortex,…
Juno Spacecraft Views 5,000 Mile Wide Storm in Jupiter’s Southern Hemisphere
A giant, spiraling storm in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere is captured in this animation from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The storm is approximately 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometers)…
Physicists Uncover Quantum Structure of Buckyballs
JILA researchers have measured hundreds of individual quantum energy levels in the buckyball, a spherical cage of 60 carbon atoms. It’s the largest molecule that…
Newly Developed Cryptocurrency is Faster and More Efficient
MIT researchers have developed a new cryptocurrency that drastically reduces the data users need to join the network and verify transactions — by up to…