Lots of little dots with no apparent pattern: Where laypeople may just see milky gray photos sprinkled with what look...
Although the Earth has long been studied in detail, some fundamental questions still have to be answered. One of them...
We have developed a new method to look for carbon compounds in space, akin to prospecting for oil on Earth....
Brown dwarfs are known as “failed stars,” owing to the lack of central hydrogen burning. They bridge the gap between...
NASA said Friday the first cosmic images from the James Webb Space Telescope will include unprecedented views of distant galaxies,...
We can model the motions of planets in the Solar System quite accurately using Newton’s laws of physics. But in...
Nitriles, a class of organic molecules with a cyano group—that is, a carbon atom bound with a triple unsaturated bond...
A citizen scientist has searched NSF’s NOIRLab’s catalog of 4 billion celestial objects, known as NOIRLab Source Catalog DR2, to...
Most clouds on Earth are made of water, but beyond our planet they come in many chemical varieties. The top...
We now have new clues about a mysterious stage in the life of binary stars, thanks to research from The...
Big data has become a big challenge for space scientists analyzing vast datasets from increasingly powerful space instrumentation. To address...
The motion of a tiny number of charged particles may solve a longstanding mystery about thin gas disks rotating around...
