December 2024

World map of number of survey responses. Shown on a log scale, each colored country has at least one response; countries in …

Schematics of artificially tilted multilayer for transverse thermoelectric conversion developed in this research. Credit: Takamasa Hirai, National Institute for Materials Science; Ken-ichi …

Composite images of PDS 70 in pseudo color. The left panel shows previous ALMA observations at 0.87 mm, and the right panel …

What was the Milky Way like billions of years ago? One way we can find out is by looking at the most …

Neutron stars are so named because in the simplest of models they are made of neutrons. They form when the core of …

Space largely seems quite empty! Yet even in the dark voids of the cosmos, ultra-high-energy cosmic rays are streaming through space. The …

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter sent its final signals to Earth in the earlier part of the year. Engineers have been studying these and …

Not long ago, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) peered into Cosmic Dawn, the cosmological period when the first galaxies formed less …

The Earth and Moon have been locked in a gravitational dance for billions of years. Each day, as the Earth turns, the …

Most galaxies are thought to play host to black holes. At the center of Centaurus A, a galaxy 12 million light years …