By analyzing the data from the Spektr-RG (SRG) spacecraft and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have detected a new magnetic cataclysmic variable. The new object, designated SRGE J075818-612027, is most likely of the polar subtype.…

Our sun is getting active, meaning more solar storms could affect Earth. Past eruptions have killed satellites, cast votes, and caused blackouts.

Unlike traditional curved glass lenses used in cameras, the newly-developed ultra-thin metalens has no curvature whatsoever.

Emojis are part of a science communicator’s arsenal. Computational chemist Andrew White describes how and why he submitted an application.

"Such a discovery would be a crushing blow. It would be by far the worst news ever printed on a newspaper cover."

What kind of object will you form? What will its fate be? How long will a star live? Almost everything is determined by mass alone.

Quantum tunnelling is a rare event that should be impossible under classical physics, but it is only now we are learning just how rare real-world examples are.

A new Sunspot has popped up on the solar surface which is hurling out dangerous M-Class solar flares.

A new era of lunar exploration is on the rise, with dozens of Moon missions planned for the coming decade. Europe is in the forefront here, contributing to building the Gateway lunar station and the Orion spacecraft – set to return humans to our natural satel…

Based on seismic data from about 200 earthquakes in the past decade, a team of Australian scientists found evidence of a fifth layer in Earth's interior: an innermost-inner core!

A supermassive black hole discovered at the edge of the universe is one of the biggest ever detected, containing over a billion solar masses

We now have strong evidence for life on Mars, in the past, and possibly in the present. An article in The Telegraph provides details: “Is it a millipede, or a rock? The ‘evidence’ we’ve already found life on Mars” The Telegraph isn’t exactly the most...

Some physicists think we live in a multiverse, surrounded by universes not quite like our own. What does that mean for life?

The appearance of all the particles and radiation in the universe may have been joined by another Big Bang that flooded our universe with dark matter particles.

Astronomers discovered "forbidden" gas giant exoplanet TOI-5205b orbiting a red dwarf star, breaking all the rules of planetary formation.

Can electrochemical reduction make fuels and chemicals from the greenhouse gas?

Gemini North Telescope on Hawaii reveals first dormant, stellar-mass black hole. Astronomers have discovered the closest black hole to Earth, the first unambiguous detection of a dormant stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way. Its close proximity to Earth, …

(CNN) — An insect found on the side of a Fayetteville, Arkansas, big-box store has been identified as the species Polystoechotes punctata, which belongs to...

The Upper Peninsula is clearing a path to be a tech hub leading innovation in automotive, manufacturing and even space travel.

Death Valley and Mars are so strikingly similar that NASA has been using the unique California national park as a stand-in for the red planet for decades.

The European Space Agency’s Juice mission launches next month, flying closer to icy moons – including Ganymede, the solar system’s largest – than ever before

Animals, especially those on land, can't grow indefinitely. The reason has to do with the square-cube law.

HAWAIʻI ISLAND - Scientists describe how lava samples from the 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa provide a window into the volcano’s plumbing system.

Determining the passage of time in our world of ticking clocks and oscillating pendulums is a simple case of counting the seconds between 'then' and 'now'.