A dozen recently confirmed new moons have boosted the giant planet's tally of orbital followers to 92.

<p>By Gary Boyle - The Backyard Astronomer</p>

NASA and ESA's Hubble Space Telescope is investigating mysterious "spokes" at the ringed planet.

Lithium-ion batteries have transformed everyday lives—almost everyone has a smartphone, more electric vehicles can be spotted on the roads, and they keep power generators going during emergencies. As more portable electronic devices, electric vehicles and lar…

Metastasis is a challenge in breast cancer therapy. The successful chemotherapy of breast cancer largely depends on the ability to block the metastatic process.

Of all the career paths offered to player characters in the venerable tabletop roleplaying game Traveller, few were as memorable as that of the scout. Stalwart explorers of empire’s hinterlands, sc…

A new study has found that dust launched from the moon’s surface or from a space station positioned between Earth and the sun could reduce enough solar radiation to mitigate the impacts of climate change.

A team of researchers has developed a soft robotic wearable that can assist people with ALS in moving their upper arm and shoulder.

A University of Houston research team, in collaboration with researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, has developed an operando reflection interference microscope (RIM) that provides a better understand…

NASA captured the moment a filament of plasma breaks off from the sun and then starts circulating around the northern pole like a tornado - an event never seen by human eyes.

Ongoing glitches aren't preventing the indefatigable probe from laying important groundwork for future lunar missions.

The NASA-funded CAPSTONE probe has been working in a unique lunar orbit since November 13, 2022, where it’s setting the...

This podcast features the particle physicist Steven Prohira

Scientific Reports - Metabolome-wide association study on physical activity

Jonathan Gardner of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, was selected as a 2023 Fellow of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) for extraordinary achievement and service.

Arizona State University has officially begun a new chapter in X-ray science with a newly commissioned, first-of-its-kind instrument that will help scientists s

Lunar Flashlight’s journey to discover water ice on the Moon hasn’t been easy. NASA had to re-evaluate its original orbital...

Ongoing thruster problems have forced a major re-think of NASA's Lunar Flashlight mission, with a monthly orbit now planned for the cubesat.

Jupiter has ousted Saturn as the planet with the most moons, as 12 newly confirmed satellites bring the total number of known moons around Jupiter up to 92.

Antiferroelectric materials have electrical properties that make them advantageous for use in high-density energy storage applications. Researchers have now discovered a size threshold beyond which antiferroelectrics lose those properties, becoming ferroelect…

A new analysis of the teeth remains found at the Lezetxiki site confirm that they belonged to Neanderthal individuals. The study, which included the involvement of the UAB and has been published in American Journal of Biological Anthropology, confirms a late …

Google's AI chatbot Bard's recent incident has cast doubt on the company's chatbot technology. Alphabet Inc.'s market value dropped by $100 billion due to the error.

People travel hundreds or thousands of miles and spend a fortune to see the night sky in all its splendor. But we are literally blocking out the cosmic beauty above our homes.

Some of the hottest spots in the Sun’s atmosphere appear in the telescope’s X-ray view.

In order to avoid the trapping of heat by greenhouse gases, a fraction of the sunlight must be intercepted before it reaches Earth. Researchers have explored ways to use space dust as a sunshield.