Human cells expressing inflammatory cytokines (stained green)

Immune surprise: recently evolved alarm molecule drives inflammation

Scientists from Trinity College Dublin have made an important breakthrough in understanding how inflammation is regulated. They have just discovered that a key immune

Emission Nebula-Star Cluster Duo from Hubble

Against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars. This whole collection is NGC 1858, an open star cluster

NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft reached a maximum distance of nearly 270,000 miles from Earth during the Artemis I flight test before beginning its journey back toward Earth. Orion captured imagery of the Earth and Moon together from its distant lunar orbit, including this image on Nov. 28, 2022, taken from camera on one of the spacecraft’s solar array wings. Credits: NASA

NASA Sets Coverage of Orion’s Historic Moon Mission Return, Splashdown

NASA will provide live coverage of the Artemis I uncrewed Orion spacecraft’s return flyby of the Moon on Monday, Dec. 5, as well as its return to

Stellar siblings over 130 light-years away host two systems of teenage planets. Watch to learn how NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite discovered these young worlds and what they might tell us about the evolution of planetary systems everywhere, including our own. Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (KBRwyle)

Stellar Siblings Host ‘Teenage’ Exoplanets Dicovered by NASA’s TESS

Thanks to data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international collaboration of astronomers has identified four exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, orbiting

X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO, IXPE: NASA/MSFC/J. Vink et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI

IXPE Measures Exploded Star Remains

When a massive star collapsed in the Cassiopeia constellation, it generated a supernova explosion with some of the fastest shockwaves in the Milky Way.

First US spacewalk: Ed White floating in zero gravity

One Giant Leap: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Project Apollo With Auction of Historic Vintage Space Photographs

As NASA looks again to the moon 50 years after the final Apollo 17 mission, groundbreaking works from the collection of Victor Martin-Malburet offer

A pair of woolly mammoth tusks fetched €50,775

Encouraging Results at the First Natural History Sale in Paris

Paris – The first sale of Naturalia organised by Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr, which took place in Paris on 21 September, achieved a total

The Enigma Decoded at Bonhams’ Instruments of Science and Technology Sale

London – Enciphering and deciphering technology was developed long before and after the Enigma machine, the cracking of which cleared the path to victory for

Webb Captures Stellar Gymnastics in The Cartwheel Galaxy

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing new details about star formation and the galaxy’s central

Red Supergiant Star Betelgeuse Seen by Hubble to Be Slowly Recovering After Blowing Its Top

Analyzing data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories, astronomers have concluded that the bright red supergiant star Betelgeuse quite literally blew

Perseid Meteor Shower – Watch It Live

If you missed out on last night’s opportunity to see the Perseid meteor shower, it not too late. In fact this year the peak

NASA’s Webb Sheds Light on Galaxy Evolution, Black Holes

In an enormous new image, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals never-before-seen details of galaxy group “Stephan’s Quintet” The close proximity of Stephan’s Quintet

Science - Page 3