While appearing as a delicate and light veil draped across the sky, this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope actually depicts a small section of the Cygnus supernova blast wave, located around 2400 light-years away. The name of the supernova remnant comes from its position in the northern...
Researchers have discovered a huge snowman-shaped star with a unique atmospheric composition.
The enormous white dwarf star is known as WDJ0551+4135 and is thought to have resulted from the merger of two so-called white dwarf stars that often explode as powerful supernovas.
The study including these findings published Monday in the...
The surviving core of a gas giant has been discovered orbiting a distant star by University of Warwick astronomers, offering an unprecedented glimpse into the interior of a planet.
The core, which is the same size as Neptune in our own solar system, is believed to be a gas giant...
University of Washington scientists have developed a tiny, wearable camera that can be mounted on bugs.
This window into a bug's world weighs just 248 milligrams (8.7 ounces), researchers describe in a paper in Science Robotics, and can stream video at 1-5 frames a second to a mobile phone within...
Harvard professor and theoretical physicist Avi Loeb claims that an alien species visited earth in 2017.
He spoke to the New York Post about his upcoming book Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth. In that tome, the professor says that the weird rock was only the first...
Scientists have demonstrated an innovative technique for increasing the intensity of lasers. This approach, based on the compression of light pulses, would make it possible to reach a threshold intensity for a new type of physics that has never been explored before: quantum electrodynamics phenomena.
Scientists Jean-Claude Kieffer of the...
The Cambrian Era, when animal life exploded into stunning diversity 541-485 million years ago, has surprised biologists once again. The latest discovery is Titanokorys gainesi, a creature that today would be notable for its shape, but then stood out for its enormous size, relative to the small animals of...
A main cable that supports the Arecibo Observatory broke Friday at 7:39 p.m. Puerto Rico time.
Unlike the auxiliary cable that failed at the same facility on Aug. 10, this main cable did not slip out of its socket. It broke and fell onto the reflector dish below, causing additional...
NASA has invented a new wearable device to help stop you from touching your face, something that public health experts have warned against since the COVID-19 outbreak began.
Wearable device scolds people for touching their face
NASA's website describes PULSE as "a 3D-printed wearable device that pulses, or vibrates, when a...
