Voyager 1 has a companion in the realm of the stars. Researchers at the University of Iowa report that the spacecraft Voyager 2 has entered the...
Living at depths approaching an entire mile, deep-sea Arctic sponges are a scientific curiosity, as they’ve somehow managed to make this extreme environment their...
A probe launched by NASA four days after Elvis died has delivered a treasure trove of data from beyond the “solar bubble” that envelops Earth and...
A rare breed of acrobatic bunny enables a giant leap in scientists’ knowledge of movement in mammals.
Materials that contain special polymer molecules may someday be able to warn us when they are about to fail, researchers said. Engineers at the University of...
Physicists use two types of measurements to calculate the expansion rate of the universe, but their results do not coincide, which may make it necessary to...
Twenty-four years ago, Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz discovered the first planet orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar systema milestone recognised by this...
Shrouded in mystery since their discovery, the phenomenon of black holes continues to be one of the most mind-boggling enigmas in our universe. In recent years,...
Defending against predators can’t completely explain why European starlings create such incredible patterns in the sky.
How do you get usable phosphorus into a system? A new study suggests lightning can do the trick.