Halo 18 is an example of a galaxy that had a head-on collision (see the panel at z=1.2) and had a disc flip (you can see this by comparing the disc orientation at z=1.4 and z=0). This image and Image ...

An artist impression of a red dwarf with a white dwarf binary companion peeking out from behind. The diameters of the two stars are shown to scale. Credit: Mark A. Garlick/University of Warwick But ...

In the mudstones of St Bathans, Central Otago, scientists have uncovered a fossil goose that adds a surprising twist to the evolutionary story of New Zealand’s birds. The deposits, dating to the early ...

Scientists have successfully measured the magnetic field of the Lighthouse pulsar’s nebula using NASA’s IXPE. Their measurements confirm the theory that high-energy particles escape along the galaxy’s ...

Exoplanet WD 1856 b, shown in this artist’s concept, is a gas giant that orbits its star at a distance 50 times closer than Earth orbits the Sun. Observations by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ...

When we watch a drama unfold on screen, we instinctively begin to sketch a mental map of the characters: who is allied, who is opposed, and where the tensions lie. But how does the brain organize this ...

Artist's conception of the view from the surface of the habitable-zone super-Earth exoplanet GJ 3378b. The planet has a minimum mass just over twice that of Earth and orbits its star at a distance ...

For most of us, quantum physics feels like something that belongs in the invisible world of atoms and photons. It’s the science of the very small, where particles can be in two places at once, or ...

In a new analysis, researchers at the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) detected significant divergences in the expression of Alzheimer’s disease risk ...

Dark matter has long been considered the scaffolding of galaxy formation, dictating how stars and gas assemble. In the quiet outskirts of the NGC 1052 field, astronomers have uncovered yet another ...

Southern California is, in most ways, a geological paradox. Over a century has passed since the last significant break affected large parts of Los Angeles, but tectonic tension still grips the ground ...

Cocaine use disorder (CUD) remains an intractable public health problem; the associated genetic etiology has not been largely detected. Using rat models, researchers in a new report charted DNA ...