NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Around 15 percent of near-Earth asteroids have small moons, which suggests binary systems are fairly common. Many of the larger asteroid pairs have likely formed ...

Wrinkle structures are small ridges and pits in rock, often made by microbial mats. They’re best known from Precambrian and Cambrian strata, where they serve as important evidence of early life, and ...

A new theoretical framework shows that tidal forces in inspiraling neutron star pairs can be described through oscillation modes, opening a new path to studying ultra-dense matter using gravitational ...

And in one of the most remote corners of the planet, beneath Antarctica, gravity is at its weakest. In a new study published ...

This insight may also help researchers better understand how other organs develop and could eventually inspire new medical ...

This map is part of ACES — the ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey — a project designed to understand how gas condenses into stars in ...

Long before the infamous Black Death swept through medieval Europe, killing a third of its population, another strain of the plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, haunted humanity. This earlier strain ...

Penn State researchers found that lightning-like discharges may occur inside materials such as glass and quartz, potentially ...

But new research shows the lungs don’t follow that rule. A study in Nature Communications reveals that certain lung cells are ...

Most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local Group of galaxies (which includes the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy) must be ...

Scientists develop fluorescent dye-loaded nanosized, irregularly-shaped microplastics to track their movement in real time.

Artist’s illustration of the interplay of a vibrational mode in electron-transfer processes Credit Credit: Pratyush Ghosh The ...