The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have imaged a snake-like galaxy. Scientists named the galaxy NGC 1087, and it is… [+2478 chars]
Venus' atmosphere bears no signs of microbes eating or pooping, suggesting that the odd chemical composition of the planet's clouds cannot be explained by extraterrestrial life. In a new study, res… [+3522 chars]
Mercury will be visible at pre-dawn on June 16, 2022 when the planet reaches greatest western elongation. (Image credit: Chris Vaughan) Mercury will briefly reveal itself at pre-dawn tomorrow (June… [+2443 chars]
Astronomers have developed a new model for simulating how clusters of baby stars form and evolve, helping to explain how bubbles of ionized gas are created away from the heart of a galaxy. Stellar n… [+3034 chars]
On any given day between 2016 and 2019, Heather Stewart could be found snorkeling in between mangroves in the Bocas del Toro archipelago along Panama's Caribbean coast. For years she visited these fo… [+6164 chars]
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The physicists also created an odd ball that always bounces to one side and an odd wall that controls where it absorbs energy from an impact. The objects all stem from the same equation describing a… [+2900 chars]
CVM cells (red) follow along a track made of TVM (green) cells. The TVM cells emit a signal, letting CVM cells know that they are going the right direction. The CVM cells are approaching a bend in th… [+6739 chars]
“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]
One component of particular intricacy is the nuclear pore complex. Encircling the eukaryotic cell nucleus lies a double membrane, known as the nuclear envelope, that encloses the genetic material of … [+1466 chars]
Beyond the realm of mind-blowing spaceflight, groundbreaking satellites and stunning moon landings, the European Space Agency is focused on one crucial quest. It is simply to "create the most accurat… [+6606 chars]
A team of researchers led by Dr. Sebastian Hess from the University of Cologne's Institute of Zoology has studied the expression of carbohydrate-active enzymes in the unicellular organism Orciraptor … [+3303 chars]
