In the constellation Cygnus, a bright knot of stars seems to adorn one edge of a nearly perfect 20-light-year-wide circle, ...

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Hidden Lives of Stars, opening November 29 at Morehead Planetarium, is a new interactive exhibit, giving visitors a hands-on look at how stars form, age, and shape the planets around them. Explore ...

The researchers simulated space conditions by exposing the three tissues to UV radiation and freezing and high temperatures.

How does a planet’s size influence its orbit around its parent star? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of ...

Mori3's triangular, modular design allows it to fuse with its companions, and could one day make it into space. By Andrew Paul Published Jun 13, 2023 10:00 AM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

Researchers have identified a new mechanism that drives the development of form and structure, through the observation of artificial materials that shape-shift through a wide variety of forms which ...