This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of gas and dust within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring dwarf galaxy...
Researchers on the Dawn mission released a series of six groundbreaking papers on the dwarf planet Ceres today in the journal Science. The new results...
Anomalous grooves on Phobos, the larger of the two Martian moons, are the result of debris ejected by impacts eventually falling back onto the surface...
The details of the transition from defined rays in the upper atmosphere of the Sun to the solar wind have always been a mystery. Using NASA’s STEREO...
An international team of scientists from Australia and the UK has uncovered the world’s oldest fossils in a remote area of Greenland, revealing that...
According to a study led by Dr. Attila Andics of the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, dogs use the left hemisphere to process words and...
An international group of researchers has discovered that two regions in the genomes of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) are changing in response...
For the first time, physicists have discovered that in an extremely high magnetic field ‘massless’ Dirac electrons can acquire a mass.
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Using five space- and four ground-based telescopes, an international team of astronomers has found the most distant galaxy cluster to date.
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Paleontologists say they’ve discovered the fossilized remains of a small-bodied pterosaur, a prehistoric flying reptile, which lived roughly 77 million...
Milky Way’s center is currently a quiet place. But it wasn’t always this way – a new study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters (arXiv.org...
In the race to discover the recently proposed Planet Nine, a team of astronomers has discovered ten previously unknown objects beyond the orbit of the...
On August 27, 2016, NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully performed its first of 36 close flybys of the giant planet Jupiter.
Jupiter’s north polar region...
A new kind of chemical compound can block the protein Ebola virus uses to break out of cells and infect new cells, according to a new study by researchers...
In the latest edition of Science, an international team of chemists from the United States and Germany captures the fundamental chemistry of berkelium.
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft will get closer to the cloud tops of Jupiter on Saturday, August 27. The flyby is expected to provide preliminary science data.
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Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory and the Gemini North telescope have found a galaxy that consists almost entirely of dark matter, the mysterious...
