Astrophysicists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) and the Centro de Astrobiología (CAB) have ...

Deep in the cold, dusty spaces between stars where no planets exist and no ...

Louis E. Brus, a chemist and Nobel laureate who discovered quantum dots, tiny crystals that emit various colors of light ...

"Our results show that a 13-atom molecule structurally similar to those in comets already exists in a young, starless ...

A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...

An image with three panels, all tinted green. In one panel, a woman wearing protective clothing, goggles, gloves, and hair covering holds a clipboard in one arm and reaches with the other toward a ...

Through new experiments, researchers in Japan and Germany have recreated the chemical conditions found in the subsurface ...

A research project conducted by the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung shows how biomass can be used as a raw material ...

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences has gone in this eighteenth edition to physicists Allan ...

A gang of Dementor-like figures took to the skies of Berlin on Tuesday (January 13) in a visual spectacle marking the launch ...

Microscopic ocean algae produce a huge share of Earth’s oxygen—but they need iron to do it. New field research shows that ...