Scientists have identified the largest sulfur-containing organic molecule in interstellar space, providing new insights into life's cosmic origins.

Some galaxies eject powerful streams of charged particles—jets—from their centers into space. The prominent jet of Messier 87 ...

Air pollution may be turning ants against their own families, according to new research which suggests that such pollution ...

Long before quantum mechanics existed, a scientist developed a powerful way of describing motion by drawing an analogy between particles and light.

Both animal experts and Max Planck of the University of Rome tried to answer the age-old question, why do dogs wag their tails? A dog’s tail is used to balance and swat away pests in the wild, but the ...

A new study has connected the famous m87 black hole, the first ever imaged, to its powerful cosmic jet, revealing how it ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

As the first month of the new year comes to a close, edie and our innovation partner Springwise shine a spotlight on six of ...

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences has gone in this eighteenth edition to physicists Allan MacDonald (The University of Texas at Austin) and Pablo ...

F or all of its life-sustaining energy, the sun is pretty chaotic. Roiling plasma covers its surface along with fluidic snarls of magnetic fields that birth solar flares. These fiery outbursts occur ...

Observations with the Event Horizon Telescope enable researchers to localize the likely base of the central outflow in a ...

The common shrew looks unremarkable, a few grams of fur and teeth scurrying under leaf litter. Yet this tiny mammal performs ...