Long gone are the days when astronomers only studied the skies with simple optical telescopes. Today, unveiling the mysteries of the Universe involves ever-larger and more complex facilities that detect things like gravitational waves and different forms of electromagnetic radiation – the spectrum of energy that includes visible light and X-rays.

One particularly specialized branch of astronomy is gamma-ray astronomy. It does what is says on the tin, searching for gamma rays, which are the most energetic photons (light particles) on the electromagnetic spectrum. In fact, they are millions of times more energetic than the light we can see.

An antibiotic-resistant superbug was detected in Los Angeles County wastewater samples, and public health officials are concerned, The Los Angeles Times reports.

The superbug was found amid ongoing wastewater surveillance that became an important tool for public health officials during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The NBC Nightly News will air an interview with Tiffany Dover, who fainted after getting the COVID-19 vaccine on live television leading to a number of anti-vaccine advocates to sound the alarm.

“I didn’t die that day,” Tiffany told NBC. “But the life I knew did.”

Heather Vahdat has been advocating for male contraceptive options for nearly a decade, but she is the first to say it is a lonely space to occupy in the health science field.

Vahdat is the executive director of the Male Contraceptive Initiative, based in Durham, North Carolina, which has been working with a single donor to provide up to $1.5 million in grants per year for emerging male birth control technologies since 2017 — and that makes it the second largest funder of that type of research in the U.S., second only to the National Institutes of Health.

Diet-related chronic diseases have reached a critical juncture in the U.S.

Nearly half the population has prediabetes or diabetes. Over 40% are overweight or obese. One in nine people over the age of 65 has Alzheimer’s disease, the development of which researchers are exploring the potential role of diet. Poor diet is also linked to poor mental health, cardiovascular disease and cancer. It was responsible for nearly 1 in 5 deaths in the U.S. and accounted for over US$140 billion in U.S. health care spending in 2016.

On April 13, 2023, the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch a rocket carrying a spacecraft destined for Jupiter. The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer – or JUICE – will spend at least three years on Jupiter’s moons after it arrives in 2031. In October 2024, NASA is also planning to launch a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper to the Jovian moons, highlighting an increased interest in these distant, but fascinating, places in the solar system.

I’m a planetary scientist who studies the structure and evolution of solid planets and moons in the solar system.

A Republican lawmaker went on an angry rant Sunday morning just after CNN "State of the Union" host Dana Bash fact-checked him on the multiple uses for the drug mifepristone which a Donald Trump-appointed judge is trying to take off the market.

Asked to address the highly controversial ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk issued late Friday, Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) stated the FDA should prepare to follow his directive with no complaints.

Dr. Makenzie Lystrup became the first-ever female director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) this week, but it was the choreography of her swearing-in ceremony that drew her special praise.

Writing on his Substack “Friendly Atheist,” Hemant Mehta proclaimed “the joy of seeing a NASA official swear her oath on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot.’” He noted that NASA’s press release didn’t note Lystrup’s choice of books, but it was visible in a photo that accompanied it.

A huge black hole is tearing through space, leaving behind a 200,000-light-year-long trail of newborn stars, space scientists say.

The supermassive monster -- likely born of a bizarre game of intergalactic billiards -- is rampaging through the blackness and plowing into gas clouds in its path.

A core part of the ruling by Trump-appointed Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk on Friday halting longstanding Food and Drug Administration of mifepristone for nonsurgical abortions is his claim that the FDA had never properly considered the harms of abortion procedures on the women having them.

But that's nonsense, reproductive care Dr. Jennifer Conti told CNN's Anderson Cooper.