Astronomers have seen what appears to the first light ever detected from a black hole merger. …
Bugs resort to several colors to protect themselves from predators
New research has revealed for the first time that shield bugs use a variety of colors…
Voter ID laws discriminate against racial and ethnic minorities, new study reveals
Voter ID laws are becoming more common and more strict, and the stakes for American democracy…
Spider baby boom in a warmer Arctic
Climate change leads to longer growing seasons in the Arctic. A new study, which has just…
Black hole collision may have exploded with light
When two black holes spiral around each other and ultimately collide, they send out ripples in…
Quantum entanglement demonstrated aboard orbiting CubeSat
In a critical step toward creating a global quantum communications network, researchers have generated and detected…
Hubble Sees Cosmic Flapping ‘Bat Shadow’
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed a young star’s unseen, planet-forming disk casting a huge shadow across…
NASA developing a plan to fly personnel on suborbital spacecraft
For the first time in the agency’s history, NASA has initiated a new effort to enable…
CNO fusion neutrinos from the sun observed for the first time
A team of researchers working on the Borexino project has announced that they have observed carbon/nitrogen/oxygen…
How NASA's Mars helicopter will reach the red planet's surface
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will travel with the Perseverance rover through 314 million miles (505 million…