ByMax Planck Institute for AstronomyJuly 8, 2022 Schematic representation of the view into cosmic history provided by the bright light of distant quasars. Observing with a telescope (bottom left) al… [+13773 chars]
A newly discovered star is so close to our galaxy's central supermassive black hole that it completes an orbit in just four years. That's the shortest orbit yet for one of the stars looping around t… [+3495 chars]
Scientists announced this week the launch of experiments in the deepest laboratory in the United States, investigations which experts hope will reveal answers to some of the most fundamental mysterie… [+1018 chars]
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is digging into the surface of the Red Planet on the hunt for evidence of running water in the planet's past — and signs of ancient Mars life, if it ever existed. Pers… [+3088 chars]
ByCalifornia Institute of TechnologyJuly 8, 2022 An artists depiction of a bacterial cell. Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/James Archer Since its inception, chemotherapy has prov… [+7611 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope will soon turn its eyes to the solar system's king, the gas giant Jupiter. Jupiter is a complex system full of mysteries, hosting realms of questions concerning the na… [+4702 chars]
Artistic reconstruction of the yunnanozoan from the Cambrian Chengjiang biota shows basket-like pharyngeal skeletons. Credit: Dinghua Yang Research reveals yunnanozoans as the oldest known stem vert… [+4848 chars]
A star getting too close to our solar system could cause chaos (Picture: PA) Researchers have found that if a star flying past our solar system moved Neptunes orbit by just 0.1 per cent, it would re… [+2205 chars]
When it comes to graphene, it appears that superconductivity runs in the family. Graphene is a single-atom-thin material that can be exfoliated from the same graphite that is found in pencil lead. T… [+7405 chars]
Comment on this story Ten years ago, a team operating the worlds largest particle collider made history by discovering the Higgs boson particle, a finding key to understanding the creation of the un… [+5908 chars]
Our living planet is unique among all we've been able to explore in the Universe so far. From our axial tilt preventing too many temperature extremes, to our goldilocks zone position, life on Earth d… [+4018 chars]
A team of researchers say theyve found some building blocks of RNA in a molecular cloud close to the center of the Milky Way. The discovery has implications for theories about how life began on Earth… [+3955 chars]
