The smaller, brighter, and hotter star (on the left), which has a mass of 32 times that of our Sun,...
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The International Space Station orbits 250 miles above Earth. NASA The sun is huge, turbulent, and inexplicably violent. It shoots...
You might think that given how basic and ubiquitous photosynthesis is, we'd long ago figured out how it works. Instead,...
A study by the University of Chicago found links at the atomic level between photosynthesis and exciton condensates — a...
Crassigyrinus was well adapted to life as an aquatic predator. Credit: © Bob Nichols 2018Researchers have reconstructed a skull Crassigyrinus...
A recent study indicates that the basic ingredients for life on Earth may have originated from solar eruptions. The research...
This artist's concept represents the rocky exoplanet GJ 486 b, which orbits a red dwarf star just 26 light-years away...
An occultation is a celestial event that occurs when an object is obscured by another object passing between it and...
An artist's impression of what Saturn might look like in the next 100 million years. The inner rings disappear when...
While the few minutes it takes for the spacecraft's booster rocket to claw its way out of Earth's gravity may...