With every cycle of a gas-powered engine, three-quarters of the energy in the fuel goes out as heat through the exhaust and into the atmosphere. A prototype device has been developed that is hoped to ...

In the U.S., more than 135 million adults either have type 2 diabetes or are at high risk of developing it, making trustworthy nutrition advice essential. Observational studies often link eating more ...

Astronomers have spotted a blue straggler orbiting a brown dwarf, the first known system of its kind ever seen. This ...

It would be like detecting a hidden inflection in our own Sun’s spectrum, yet no such evidence can be found! Past solar ...

Look closer at the NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 1266, and you could mistake it for a spiral galaxy. There is a ...

This high-resolution photo of the planet Mercury probably resembles the rocky exoplanet LHS 3844 b. Results from JWST observations favour an airless rocky planet with a dark, basalt-like surface, ...

For decades, astrobiology has been guided by one haunting question: Are we alone in the universe? The field’s mission is to test the possibility of extraterrestrial life, but the search is anything ...

The planetary odd couple of a mini-Neptune and hot Jupiter probably formed out beyond its star’s “frostline,” in the colder region of the protoplanetary disk. Credits: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT Almost ...

Credit: NASA Exo-S Study Team The latest ultra-black coating combines extreme thinness with durability. It has an extremely ...

Simulated movement and speed (indicated by the length of the arrows) of objects surrounding the Local Group (in the centre of the image) | Image Ewoud Wempe and collaborators. Astronomers may have ...

The majority of dinosaur fossils found in Thailand are large, long-necked sauropods. Yet, in the Khok Kruat Formation, the youngest dinosaur-charged Mesozoic rock layer in Thailand, fossil remains are ...