“Why does it matter if Pluto is a planet or a dwarf planet? Because for me it just makes it more confusing in our solar system. I know that some things in space are planets and some are stars and som… [+1239 chars]
A total of 23 amino acids were found in the asteroid samples returned by Japans Hayabusa2 space probe. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, which are required for life to exist. These fi… [+2240 chars]
In a paper published today in Science Advances, researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a method using the polarization of light to maximize information storage density and computing p… [+3593 chars]
Most human hearts look nearly identicalmuscle cells in the same places, blood vessel structures in the same orientations. Organs such as hearts or stomachs look alike and function the same across ind… [+5992 chars]
This mosaic of dusty, swirling disks shows a sample of images captured from the International Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF's NOIRLab, as part of an unprecedented survey of 44 young massive st… [+3752 chars]
A spiral galaxy looks snuggled like a sleeping snake in a stunning new image from the European Southern Observatory’s Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA). ALMA’s high altitude of 16,… [+1431 chars]
Examples of galaxy pairs found in this studyhere are examples of detected systems which are within close proximity to each other. Credit: C.Conselice et al Astronomers in the UK announce today that … [+4262 chars]
A particularly long eruption of an M-class solar flare was observed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory by NASA yesterday, June 14. Immediately after the flare went off, the electromagnetic energy was … [+2573 chars]
Article body copy Hidden inside the Earthwithin the first several hundred kilometers below the crustthere is another ocean. It is, most likely, the largest ocean in the world. This water is not slos… [+4100 chars]
The scientists reported that thousands of strange viruses that were newly discovered hiding in the world’s oceans might exert a huge impact on the ecosystems, in part by “reprogramming” the hosts the… [+1569 chars]
FLRT receptors act as ‘context identifiers’ that control the formation of different signaling complexes to regulate brain development. So far, research has focused on the extracellular domain of thes… [+1545 chars]
From the recent and intriguing discovery, astronomers have observed an unusual kind of cosmic subject in the Milky Way galaxy. The object called MAXI J1816-195 is found to be spewing X-ray light that… [+1253 chars]