Known as “islands of inversion,” these regions are found among a sea of normal nuclei. Now, a new island may have been ...

An international team of researchers has systematically measured the β-decay half-lives of 40 nuclei near calcium-54, ...

What's the shape of water? In 2022, NASA launched the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite to answer this ...

Shape memory alloys are exotic materials that can be deformed at room temperature and return to their "remembered," ...

The research has implications for NASA’s goals to build a base on the moon and eventually conduct crewed missions to Mars.

The James Webb Space Telescope snapped its sharpest image of the area around a black hole, solving a long-standing galactic ...

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A distinctive nebula inside the constellation Lyra holds a never-before-seen cloud of iron atoms—and researchers aren’t sure ...

At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...

A huge bar of iron has been discovered lurking inside the iconic Ring Nebula. The structure is enormous, spanning hundreds of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered its clearest view yet of a supermassive black hole's immediate surroundings, ...

Named “Cloud-9,” the discovery is a new type of celestial object known as a RELHIC, making it unlike anything scientists have ...