Rich with detail, the spiral galaxy NGC 1309 shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week. NGC 1309 is situated about 100 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus.
This stunning Hubble image encompasses NGC…
A striking new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows incredible details in the Tarantula Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region located in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
This Hubble image shows part of the Tarantula Nebula, a…
The United States’ national parks have an inherent contradiction. The federal law that created the National Park Service says the agency – and the parks – must “conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the…
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About 60 pregnancies per day in the U.S. end in stillbirth.
The best way to find out why a stillbirth occurred is a fetal autopsy – yet these procedures are performed in only 1 in 5 of the over 20,000 stillbirths that occur each year. As…
Recent simulations and research have unveiled a fascinating new insight into the history of the solar system’s terrestrial planets. For years, scientists speculated about how the rocky planets—Earth, Mars, Venus, and the mysterious long-lost…
The moon is looking brighter every night, and we’re inching closer to the next full moon. But let’s take a look at where we are in the lunar cycle first.
The lunar cycle is a series of eight unique phases of…
Chinese robotics player PNDbotics turned heads at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai (WAIC 2025), showcasing for the first time its full-sized humanoid Adam alongside its data‑collection counterpart Adam‑U.
Adam,…
Researchers created a targeted fat loss therapy using light-sensitive nanoparticles that activate fat-burning processes inside adipocytes, offering a new direction for localized obesity treatment without systemic drugs.
Sometimes, the stock market feels like a slot machine you’re expected to understand—charts flying around, breaking news dropping like anvils, and FOMO whispering sweet nothings in your ear every time a meme coin takes off. And yet, some folks…