A viral particle with an unprecedentedly long 'tail' has been caught infecting dinoflagellate plankton in the Pacific Ocean. The virus, PelV-1 uses its tail to attach to its intended victim while ...

A closer looks at Mercury's tail. A closer looks at Mercury's tail. Mercury has been spotted cosplaying as a comet over the last few days when the sun's neighboring planet reached its nearest point to ...

University of Hawai'i at Mānoa oceanographers have identified PelV-1, a dinoflagellate-infecting giant virus whose micron-length tail reaches 2.3 µm, stretching current notions of viral architecture.

A planet nearly twice the size of Jupiter is losing its atmosphere through dramatic jets of helium unfurling before and behind it as it travels through space. A team of astronomers discovered the ...

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Astronomers have discovered a distant exoplanet with a tail that stretches over 5.5 million miles long. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares / MIT illustration Astronomers have accidentally found a planet with ...

It turns out that, like the antennas on an insect or crustacean, a ray uses its tail to sense its environment. The inside of a myliobatid stingray tail is remarkably complex, the scientists learned.