Butterfly Star flaps its rainbow wings | Space photo of the day for Sept. 4, 2025

This young star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, separating the “wings” of the butterfly.
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This young star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, separating the “wings” of the butterfly.

A Senate Commerce Committee hearing sounded the alarm over the U.S.-China moon race, emphasizing American dominance off Earth as the backdrop for NASA’s next funding authorization.

A winged lion sculpture that symbolizes the Italian city of Venice was made in China and went on a remarkable journey that possibly involved explorer Marco Polo’s father and the court of Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, researchers suggested Thursday.

Scientists at the University of Bath have developed a simple three-minute brainwave test called Fastball EEG that can detect memory problems years before Alzheimer’s is typically diagnosed. Unlike traditional memory tests, it passively records brain responses to images and has…

Scientists at Delft University of Technology have managed to watch a single atomic nucleus flip its magnetic state in real time. Using a scanning tunneling microscope, they indirectly read the nucleus through its electrons, finding the nuclear spin surprisingly stable…

Scientists uncovered a 310-million-year-old fish fossil with a “tongue bite,” teeth on the roof and floor of its mouth that worked like a second jaw. This adaptation, previously thought to have appeared much later, shows how fish rapidly experimented with…

How soon do jets form when a supernova gives birth to a neutron star?

The four Artemis 2 moon astronauts passed the “Bobby and Pete” fitness challenge recently, performing 100 pushups and 50 pull-ups in less than 10 minutes.

Probation officers—who supervise nearly 4 million people across the United States—are among the most visible faces of the criminal legal system (CLS). A new study led by UConn School of Social Work Assistant Professor Sukhmani Singh focuses on how probation…

A review of research literature has confirmed a consistent and measurable link between organizational climate and job satisfaction across multiple professional sectors, including education, health care, and other service-oriented industries. The findings, published in the World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management…