Over the past year, scientists have searched brain tissue, arteries and even joints for the presence of microplastics. The tiny particles, they have found, are ubiquitous in the human body - littering ...

Three billion years after the Big Bang, a massive galaxy already looked like it had run out of time. It spun in a calm, ...

New research suggests that amino acids, the fundamental components of life, may have arrived on Earth carried by interstellar dust grains, possibly contributing to the origins of life as we know it.

This is not an individual solid shell around the star, as an astronomer named Jason Wright explained the appearance of a plausible energy-harvesting system would appear at a great distance: not a ...

The Circinus galaxy, a galaxy about 13 million light-years away, contains an active supermassive black hole that continues to influence its evolution. The largest source of infrared light from the ...

Astronomers watched a distant star dim for months and found a metal-rich cloud that may be the aftermath of a massive ...

Astonishingly, we can identify molecules present in the atmospheres of exoplanets.

The discovery reminds us just how little we really know about our galaxy In A Nutshell The Mystery: Evidence suggests dust is ...

Aluminum-doped zinc oxide nanoparticles efficiently degrade methylene blue dye in sunlight, offering a sustainable solution ...