The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured the distinct signature of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the atmosphere surrounding...
University of Toronto astronomer Evelyn Macdonald and her colleagues have identified substantial differences in surface temperature, sea ice and water...
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope mission today released its first full-color scientific images and spectroscopic data.
An artist’s impression...
Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, the new image shows the massive galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.3-7327.
This Webb image shows the galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.3-7327....
Dark photons are hypothetical particles that could account for observations that cannot be explained by the Standard Model of particle physics.
Dark photons...
Pulsar planets are extrasolar worlds that are found orbiting pulsars, or rapidly rotating neutron stars. In new research, Iuliana Camelia Nitu, a Ph.D....
According to new research from the University of Florida, roots grow into the humid tunnels of southeastern pocket gophers (Geomys pinetis) where they...
Sound, including music and noise, can relieve pain in humans, but the underlying neural mechanisms are unknown. In new research, scientists from the United...
According to a new analysis of data from NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx)...
Using data from the NOIRLab Source Catalog (NSC) DR2, citizen scientist Frank Kiwy has discovered 34 new M-, L-, or T-type dwarfs comoving with low-mass...
Someday, dozens of tiny swimming robots could whisk through the water beneath the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa or Saturn’s moon Enceladus, looking...
Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have unearthed the ruins of a Byzantine-period luxurious estate and a rare rural mosque in Rahat,...
Geologists have discovered 1.2-billion-year-old groundwater about 3 km below surface in Moab Khotsong, a gold- and uranium-producing mine in South Africa....
In a study published in the journal Social Forces, scientists from the Ohio State University and the University of Texas at Austin found that neighborhoods...
Physicists from the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced today the observation of a strange...
In a new retrospective cohort study, scientists at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston found that, through an uncertain mechanism,...
On July 4, 2012, physicists from the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider announced the observation of a Higgs boson at a mass...
Scientists from the University of Calgary and elsewhere have followed 17 International Space Station astronauts before and after spaceflight over the last...
