Astronomers using a radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory have captured the first images of the recently-discovered near-Earth asteroid 2020 BX12....
Solar Orbiter, a new collaborative mission between ESA and NASA to study our Sun, successfully launched on an Atlas V 411 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air...
Water makes up about 0.25% (almost three times that of the Sun) of the molecules in Jupiter’s atmospheric molecules at the gas giant’s equator, according...
The remains of a previously unknown Canaanite temple, dating from the 12th century BCE, have been uncovered in the north-eastern corner of the site of...
A team of U.S. physicists and materials scientists has observed a new state of matter at the interface between two oxide materials: lanthanum aluminate...
Using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope, astronomers have observed radio waves that carry the distinct signatures of extraterrestrial aurorae,...
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is closely related to the COVID-19 coronavirus (also known as SARS-CoV-2 and 2019-nCoV) that has...
A thin-film device made from nanometer-scale protein wires harvested from the microbe Geobacter sulfurreducens can generate continuous electric power in...
Using a novel technique called clumped isotope paleothermometry, an international team of paleontologists analyzed eggshell fossils representing three...
The Breakthrough Listen Initiative, the largest ever scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of alien civilizations, has released data from...
The combination of decaffeinated green tea extract and voluntary exercise can effectively mitigate nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, suggests a new study...
In a review of previous studies, a team of researchers from Sweden, Germany and China found the average reproduction number (R0) for the COVID-19 coronavirus...
Astronomers using two instruments on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have captured new images of a red supergiant star called Betelgeuse. The images...
Snorkelers in mangrove forest waters inhabited by the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana report discomfort due to a sensation known as ‘stinging...
Using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of Japanese researchers has found that Galactic cosmic rays affect the...
On February 14, 1990, cameras of NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft pointed back toward the Sun and snapped a series of pictures of the Sun, Earth and other...
A team of physicists led by the University of British Columbia has demonstrated a novel way to precisely control electrical currents by leveraging the...
Scientists have long known that immune cells migrate to the site of an infection, which individuals experience as inflammation. Now, a team of researchers...
