The observations shed surprising new light on a well-studied cosmic object.

Researchers have discovered that anaerobic fungi can break down tough lignin in plant material, providing a new pathway for accessing valuable plant fibers for the production of biofuels and other chemicals.

Throughout the Arctic, fallen trees make their way from forests to the ocean by way of rivers. Those logs can stack up as the river twists and turns, resulting in long-term carbon storage. A new study has mapped the largest known woody deposit, covering 51 sq…

The behavior of so-called "strange metals" has long puzzled scientists—but a group of researchers at the University of Toronto may be one step closer to understanding these materials.

According to the research results, this thin but dense layer is located about 2,900 kilometres (1,800 miles) below the surface.

A large team of marine, molecular and genetic biologists affiliated with a number of institutions in China has conducted what they describe as a high-quality, chromosome-level genome assembly of the black sea cucumber (Holothuria leucospilota). In doing so th…

The inspiration behind the incredible NASA Artemis II crew portraits.

Some of the most exciting things that happen in a telescope's lifetime are its data releases. Gaia, which has been operating since 2013, recently released its third major dataset, and astronomers that weren't intimately involved in the operation and planning …

Researchers replicated the classic double slit experiment using lasers, but their slits are in time not space.

April 18, 2023 is The Planetary Society's Digital Day of Action. Learn how you can get involved and show your support for space exploration.

A toothy grinned monster was lurking in the basement collection of a museum in Canada: The fossilized jaw of a beast that once roamed the bluffs along the South Saskatchewan River, competing with saber-toothed cats (Smilodon) in hunting horses, bison, camels …

The Chinese space agency has selected asteroid 2019 VL5 as the target of a mission launching in 2025.

"We don't expect traces of life on the surface of these moons and it's not feasible yet to go down to where there might be life."

The light, produced just 380,000 years after the Big Bang, was warped by the universe's dark matter exactly the way Einstein predicted it would be.

A pair of Earth, atmospheric and planetary scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology has shown how the magnetic field of a meteorite can be damaged by amateur collectors using hand magnets. In their paper published in Journal of Geophysical Research…

The question requires not just measurements of the rate of species loss, but also hard thinking about what a mass extinction is.

Beware the Holothuriidae’s ass grass.

Runaway black hole spotted by NASA EGV

Sliding and twisting of van der Waals layers can produce fascinating physical phenomena. Scientists show that moiré polar domains in bilayer hBN give rise to a topologically non-trivial winding of the polarization field, forming networks of merons and antimer…

The highly engineered fabrics will be lighter and warmer by harnessing light, and not just from the sun.

With extreme heat and crushing atmospheric pressure, the surface of Venus is one of the most deadly environments in the Solar System. Here’s what it would be like to be there.

Electrochemical coupling of biomass valorization with CO2 conversion provides a promising approach to generate value-added chemicals on both sides. However, bifunctional catalysts are lacking. Here the authors report oxygen-vacancy-rich indium oxyhydroxide as…

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a new portrait of the ice giant Uranus and 11 of its 13 known rings.