Gorgeous Ring of Stellar Wildfire Captured by Hubble Space Telescope
NGC 1614, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is an eccentrically-shaped galaxy ablaze with activity. The galaxy resides about 200 million light-years from…
NGC 1614, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is an eccentrically-shaped galaxy ablaze with activity. The galaxy resides about 200 million light-years from…
Researchers caution: It is too soon to say whether pre-existing immune cell memory affects COVID-19 clinical outcomes. Your immune system’s “memory” T cells keep track…
Vast areas of the Martian night sky pulse in ultraviolet light, according to images from NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft. The results are being used to illuminate…
What makes ships mysteriously slow down or even stop as they travel, even though their engines are working properly? This was first observed in 1893…
Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe after hydrogen. But scientists aren’t sure just how much there actually is in the Sun’s…
NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday afternoon aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon “Endeavour,” wrapping up…
A new company, CelluAir, will bring the world-first, virus-filtering mask material made from agriculture waste to market. The material was developed by Queensland University of…
Using data from NASA’s InSight Lander on Mars, Rice University seismologists have made the first direct measurements of three subsurface boundaries from the crust to…
Astronomers have discovered what can happen when a giant black hole does not intervene in the life of a galaxy cluster. Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray…
The ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider have seen evidence of a new type of decay not yet observed: the Higgs boson…
For decades, astronomers have known about irregular outbursts from the double star system V745 Sco, which is located about 25,000 light-years from Earth. V745 Sco…
Lasers on Earth are used to measure the position of space debris high above, providing crucial information on how to avoid in-space collisions. Until now,…
New electrocatalyst efficiently converts carbon dioxide into ethanol. Catalysts speed up chemical reactions and form the backbone of many industrial processes. For example, they are…
Scientists are using satellite data to map ground surface changes in the aftermath of the recent explosion. NASA’s Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) team,…
The speed of a message traveling in these packets is no longer affected by traveling through different materials of different densities. University of Central Florida…
One has a thick poisonous atmosphere, one has hardly any atmosphere at all, and one is just right for life to flourish – but it…
Owners of electric multicookers may be able to add another use to its list of functions, a new study suggests: sanitization of N95 respirator masks….
Small telescope and inexpensive diffuser key to results. New detailed observations with NSF’s NOIRLab facilities reveal a young exoplanet, orbiting a young star in the…