A dying red giant star is playing its final song some 3,400 light-years from Earth. And thanks to the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, a collection of...
Researchers at the Julius-Maximillians-Universitat, or JMU, in Germany have identified the absence of a specific protein as the possible cause of obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD. Roughly...
New research shows supermassive black holes consume stellar debris in bursts. Scientists noticed the spasmodic nature of stellar consumption while analyzing the tidal disruption flare emanating...
New research investigating the transition of the Sahara from a lush, green landscape 10,000 years ago to the arid conditions found today, suggests that humans may...
If you’re getting sick of the way things are going on Earth, we have some good news – NASA is working on making Mars habitable for...
In hopes of understanding how stellar megalopolises form and grow, researchers in Spain and Portugal set out to study the outskirts of massive elliptical galaxies. The...
Analysis of a mineral found in Martian meteorites suggests Mars’ past may have been wetter than previously thought. Scientists previously thought the mineral merrillite was proof...
The discovery of what are thought to be the world’s oldest fossils could be “direct evidence” of life on Earth billions of years ago when the...
DNA is nature’s hard drive, capable of storing, replicating and transmitting massive amounts of information. Researchers in New York found a way to use DNA like...
Europe’s most active volcano erupted in a fiery display of seismic power early Tuesday, sending bright orange flares of lava leaping into the darkness overnight as...
Next year, two private citizens are expected to become the first humans in nearly 50 years to fly beyond low Earth orbit and circle the moon,...