NASA’s fourth attempt to complete a critical test of its Moon rocket achieved around 90 percent of its goals, but...
On April 25, 2022, Twitter’s board of directors accepted Elon Musk’s US$44 billion hostile takeover bid. Twitter’s statement announcing the...
Gamma rays are the most energetic known form of electromagnetic radiation, with each gamma-ray being at least one hundred thousand...
Analyzing data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories, astronomers have concluded that the bright red supergiant star...
The James Webb Space Telescope’s first images aren’t just breathtaking—they contain a wealth of scientific insights and clues that researchers...
Spiral galaxies represent one of the most spectacular features in our universe. Among them, spiral galaxies in the distant universe...
Scientists studying a nearby protostar have detected the presence of water in its circumstellar disk. The new observations made with...
The collective activity of life—all of the microbes, plants, and animals—have changed planet Earth. Take, for example, plants: Plants “invented”...
NASA’s InSight lander is stable and sending health data from Mars to Earth after going into safe mode Friday, Jan....
Many coronal loops—ropey strands of plasma that scientists have long thought existed in the Sun’s atmosphere—may actually be optical illusions,...
Plate tectonics represents a defining framework of modern geoscience, accounting for large-scale features on Earth’s surface, such as mountains and...
Scientists have discovered a new ring system around a dwarf planet on the edge of the solar system. The ring...
