Planet WASP-12b Is on a Death Spiral – Heading Toward Certain Destruction
A Princeton-led team of astrophysicists has shown that this exoplanet is spiraling in toward its host star, heading toward certain destruction in about 3 million…
A Princeton-led team of astrophysicists has shown that this exoplanet is spiraling in toward its host star, heading toward certain destruction in about 3 million…
Mathematicians have used a statistical technique to interrogate some of the big “what if” questions in the Second World War battle for Britain’s skies. What…
Double-Checking the Science on the Effects of Ocean Acidification Sometimes it helps to check the facts. You may be surprised by what you find. Over…
LSU astronomy researchers estimate the peak of brightness and explosion of luminous star brighter than any other in the Milky Way Galaxy. Currently, the faint…
The NEID instrument will help astronomers determine the density of distant planets, which can reveal whether the planet is rocky, like Earth, or mostly gaseous,…
Drinking tea at least three times a week is linked with a longer and healthier life, according to a study published today (January 8, 2020)…
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and a new observing technique, astronomers have found that dark matter forms much smaller clumps than previously known. This result…
Interconnected stellar nurseries form the largest gaseous structure ever observed in the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers at Harvard University have discovered a monolithic, wave-shaped gaseous…
Need to control glucose? There’s a drink for that, says University of British Columbia professor. With more people with diabetes and pre-diabetes looking for novel…
Nearly a decade after the nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan, researchers from the University of Georgia have found that wildlife populations are abundant in areas…
Transmorphic epitaxial growth of AlN nucleation layers on SiC substrates for high-breakdown thin GaN transistors. A new method to fit together layers of semiconductors as…
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-size planet in its star’s habitable zone, the range of distances where conditions may be…
At a time when kombucha is commonplace on cafe menus and “probiotic-fortified” has become the newest health buzzword, our guts have never been more relevant….
SOFIA Reveals New View of Milky Way’s Center NASA has captured an extremely crisp infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Spanning…
For more than a decade, astronomers across the globe have wrestled with the perplexities of fast radio bursts — intense, unexplained cosmic flashes of energy,…
Basic cooperation skills appear to be shared by dogs and wolves, suggesting that this ability was present in a common ancestor and was not lost…
UT Southwestern Medical Center experts: Gaps in clinical whole exome sequencing at major commercial labs indicative of larger issue Reanalysis of patient samples from 3…
NASA’s Hubble Surveys Gigantic Galaxy: Majestic Spiral Has Slowly Grown Over Billions of Years Galaxies are like snowflakes. Though the universe contains innumerable galaxies flung…