Something is amiss in the Butterfly Nebula. When a team led by astronomers at the University of Washington compared two exposures of this planetary nebula that had been taken by the Hubble Space...

Researchers at Arizona State University working with NASA-affiliated scientists have found that the surface of Mars houses a supply of opal. The semi-precious gemstones form when silica dissolves i…

Planetary nebulae form when red giant stars expel their outermost layers as they run out of helium fuel—becoming hot, dense white dwarf stars that are roughly the size of Earth. The material that was shed, enriched in carbon, forms dazzling patterns as it is …

LA JOLLA, CA — Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have at last uncovered how an enzyme called O-GlcNAc transferase (OGT) keeps cells healt

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope identified 87 galaxies at high redshifts, meaning they formed in the early universe roughly 200 million to 400 million years after the Big Bang.

A new theory could explain the origin and properties of systems of rocky super-Earths and their relationship with the terrestrial planets of the solar system.

Newly-discovered comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) (yes that is the full name) could be visible tonight in the Tampa Bay area. It was discovered last year as it moved past Jupiter but tonight, it will make its closest approach to the sun.

Rocky planet is orbiting a star and is 99 per cent the diameter of Earth.

In this study, the authors estimate the effectiveness of the mRNA-1273 (Moderna) vaccine for Omicron subvariants using data from the USA on ~31,000 cases and ~92,000 matched controls. They find that effectiveness against infection waned rapidly after third an…

Researchers have located 208 stars in the most remote reaches of the Milky Way's halo, the furthest of which is a staggering 1.08 million light years from Earth.

Integration is not only a problem of social significance among humans, but also an issue for the cells that form us as humans.

New research has been published on the organic analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite which crashed landed onto a driveway in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England in 2021. The research, led by Dr. Queenie Chan, from the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Hol…

A research team led by Prof. Kong Lingtao from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of of Chinese Academy of Sciences proposed a pre-assembly strategy to anchor single atoms on carbon nitride nanosheets. They prepared a series of single atom-loaded carbon…

Named c-OECNs (conductance-based organic electrochemical neurons), they closely mimic 15 of the 20 features of biological nerve cells.

NASA has issued a grant for an autonomous aircraft concept dubbed TitanAir designed to skim over the liquid methane lakes of Saturn's icy moon Titan.

A planetary origin model that forms exoplanets from a narrow ring of silicate material at a stellocentric distance of 1 au is able to explain the physical properties of super-Earths and reproduce the ‘peas in a pod’ pattern of uniformity within planetary arch…

A ONCE-in-a-lifetime eclipse has revealed an ‘exceptionally rare’ star system with a 1000-year orbit. The end of the seven-year-long eclipse was discovered by pure chance. Scientists in…

A ONCE-in-a-lifetime eclipse has revealed an ‘exceptionally rare’ star system with a 1000-year orbit. The end of the seven-year-long eclipse was discovered by pure chance. Scientists in…

The Martian meteorite Tissint contains a huge diversity of organic compounds, found an international team of researchers led by Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Munich's Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin and including Carnegie's Andrew Steele. Their work i…

There are seven people hanging out in the International Space Station, and you can probably see their home from your home.

If you’ve ever looked up at the lights in the nighttime sky and wondered if there’s life up there, rest assured that there is. The third brightest object in ...

Astronomers have detected in the stellar halo that represents the Milky Way's outer limits a group of stars more distant from Earth than any known within our own galaxy - almost halfway to a neighboring galaxy.

Integration is not only a problem of social significance among humans, but also an issue for the cells that form us as humans. The addition of new cells into an already established group of cells is crucial for shaping the organs during normal development, bu…

An abrupt slow-down in a magnetar’s rotation rate (a ‘glitch’) may be related to the subsequent emission of three radio bursts (resembling fast radio bursts) and a month-long episode of pulsed radio emission.

Hundreds of black holes previously hidden, or buried, have been found using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This result helps give astronomers a more accurate census of black holes in the universe.