New research using NASA’s powerful JWST telescope has identified a planet 41 light years away which may...
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Space changes you. It strengthens some muscles, weakens others, shifts fluids within your body, and realigns your...
Selecting the right spot to smash a spacecraft into the surface of a hazardous asteroid to deflect...
A team of researchers led by the Instituto Galego de Física de Altas Enerxías (IGFAE) from the...
About 80% of the universe’s mass is thought to consist of dark matter. Yet, little is known...
At any given moment, trillions of particles called neutrinos are streaming through our bodies and every material...
Finding life beyond Earth would be a major scientific discovery with significant implications for all areas of...
Within our Milky Way galaxy, in the direction of the constellation Vulpecula, a cosmic “lighthouse” named PSR...
Radio astronomy took another step forward recently, with the completion of Phase III of the Murchison Widefield...
Space has a trash problem, with defunct satellites, rockets, and smaller broken bits orbiting Earth at high...
Using ESA’s INTEGRAL spacecraft, astronomers have detected exceptionally bright X-ray flares from the Cygnus X-1 X-ray binary...
Stargazers enjoyed a “Blood Moon” Sunday night during a total lunar eclipse visible across Asia and swaths...
Scientists have discovered that Mars has an interior structure similar to Earth’s. Results from NASA’s InSight mission...
While it may appear as just another spiral galaxy among billions in the universe, this image from...
Chinese researchers have developed a new carbon nanotube insulator that can withstand high temperatures up to 2,600°C,...
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the solar system. As a source of clean energy, hydrogen...
Since the first discovery of planets beyond the solar system in 1995, more than 6,000 exoplanets have...
A research team led by Ph.D. candidate Wang Haozhi under the supervision of Prof. Ali Esamdin at...
You are probably familiar with kangaroos. Wallabies too, and most likely quokkas as well.
Astronomers and students working together through a unique educational initiative have obtained a striking new image of...