The infrared space telescope is designed to help advance NASA’s planetary defense efforts. NASA has approved the Near-Earth Object...
Vitamin D deficiency strongly exaggerates the craving for and effects of opioids, potentially increasing the risk for dependence...
Supermassive black holes (SMBH) occupy the center of galaxies, with masses ranging from one million to 10 billion solar masses....
Novel crystalline form of silicon could potentially be used to create next-generation electronic and energy devices. A team led...
Consuming large amounts of daily caffeine may increase the risk of glaucoma more than three-fold for those with a genetic predisposition...
The first double-blind experiment analyzing the role of human decision-making in climate reconstructions has found that it can...
Just a few bacterial taxa found in ecosystems across the planet are responsible for more than half of carbon cycling in soils....
This image, taken with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), features the spiral galaxy NGC 4680. At 2 o’clock and 7 o’clock two...
Launched in 2007, the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere, or AIM, mission is the first detailed exploration of Earth's unique and elusive clouds that are...
While the International Space Station was traveling more than 250 miles over the South Pacific ocean, a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft autonomously docked to the...