Hubble Views the Constellation of Canes Venatici
This newly released Hubble image shows multiple Messier objects and numerous galaxies in the Canes Venatici constellation. This stunning new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble…
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Higgs Boson May Explain the Earliest Expansion of the Universe
In a newly published study, physicists propose that the Higgs boson, which was recently confirmed to be the origin of mass, may also be responsible…
Neurologists Discover New Method to Fight Glioblastomas
By targeting a protein crucial in the early development of the brain, researchers discovered that they can block multiple signaling pathways implicated in glioblastoma growth…
NuSTAR Sees Rare Event Near Supermassive Black Hole Markarian 335
NuSTAR observations reveal X-ray light streaming from regions near supermassive black hole Markarian 335. NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has captured an extreme and…
Bioengineers at Tufts Create Functional 3D Brain-Like Tissue
Bioengineers at the Tissue Engineering Resource Center at Tufts University have created three-dimensional brain-like tissue that functions like and has structural features similar to tissue…
Scientists Detect a Possible Signal from Dark Matter
Using data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, astrophysicists may have detected an emission line from a form of dark matter, the sterile neutrino, in the…
Our Universe May Have Emerged from a Black Hole in a Higher Dimensional Universe
New research from theoretical physicists at the Perimeter Institute proposes that our universe may have emerged from a black hole in a higher-dimensional universe. The…
New ESO Image of Spiral Galaxy Messier 33
This newly released VLT Survey Telescope image shows spiral galaxy Messier 33, which is located about three million light-years away. The VLT Survey Telescope (VST)…
Cool Planet-Like Object May Have Spent Much of Its Youth as Hot as a Star
A new study details the discovery of a Y dwarf (WISE J0304-2705) that may have spent much of its youth as hot as a star….
Curiosity Rover Nears Mountain-Base Outcrop
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover is approaching its first close look at bedrock that is part of Mount Sharp, approaching a geological unit that’s part of…
ALMA Reveals Double Star with Wildly Misaligned Planet-Forming Discs
Using ALMA, astronomers have discovered wildly misaligned planet-forming gas discs around the two young stars in the binary system HK Tauri. Astronomers using the Atacama…
Messenger Spacecraft Reveals Mercury’s Bizarre Magnetic Field
Scientists used data from NASA’s Messenger spacecraft to reveal how Mercury’s core is different from Earth’s, explaining why the planet has such a bizarre magnetic…
Newly Released Herschel Image of Spiral Galaxy M33
This newly released image from ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory shows the Triangulum Galaxy, which is home to some forty billion stars and is located three…
A New Approach in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Scientists are taking a new approach in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, studying exoplanet atmospheres for signs of pollution. Humanity is on the threshold of…
Astronomers Discover Transiting Exoplanet with Longest Known Year, Kepler-421b
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a transiting exoplanet with the longest known year, circling its star once every 704 days. Astronomers…
Is the Universe a Bubble? – Physicists Work on the Multiverse Hypothesis
In several new studies and a short video, researchers from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics detail their work on the multiverse hypothesis. Perimeter Associate…
Scientists Experimentally Recreate Conditions That Exist Deep Inside Giant Planets
Using the largest laser in the world, scientists were able to experimentally recreate the conditions that exist deep inside giant planets for the first time….
ATLAS Collaboration Detects Process Even Rarer Than Higgs Particle
A new published study from the ATLAS Collaboration reports the first evidence of a process that can be used to test the mechanism by which…