Many would-be whistleblowers write to us about papers with nonexistent references, possibly hallucinated by artificial intelligence. One reader recently alerted us to fake references in … an ethics…

Next-generation drone flight software is just one of 25 technologies for the Red Planet that the space agency funded for development this year.

Satellite data reveals shocking speed in the collapse of Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier. What does this mean for the planet?

It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is described extremely well by quantum theory, while the world of gravitation is captured by Einstein's general theory of relativity. But …

Scientists discovered a 520-million-year-old fossilized larva with brains and guts intact, offering unprecedented insights into early arthropod evolution.

The single-celled organism can grow at 63 °C, a record for eukaryotic life.

Hakuto-r captures a rare “terrestrial sunrise” during a total eclipse just before crashing into the Moon, revealing the shadow on Earth.

What if the key to unlocking hidden dinosaur fossils wasn’t buried beneath the earth, but above it, with drones?

Astronomers have long debated the role of galaxy mergers in powering active supermassive black holes. Now an unprecedented dataset of a million galaxies from the Euclid telescope provides evidence that mergers play a dominant role and are even the primary tri…

An international research team involving Paderborn University has achieved a crucial breakthrough on the road to a quantum internet. For the first time ever, the polarization state of a single photon emitted from a quantum dot was successfully teleported to a…

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies could not yet exist. Two astronomers from India have identified a remarkably mature galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—…

New research shows how human cells can be effectively 'recharged' by replacing their internal batteries – microscopic power stations called mitochondria – and the discovery could have wide-ranging benefits across healthcare and medical treatments.

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NASA cuts Boeing Starliner deal to 4 flights following thruster failures in 2024 that stranded astronauts on ISS. The next flight is cargo-only in April 2026.

What if Mars wasn’t always the dry, barren planet we know today? Massive river systems, once thought to be unique to Earth, have now been discovered on the Red Planet.

A NASA astronaut and 2 cosmonauts reached the International Space Station last week, but Russia's launch pad was damaged in the process.

These discoveries are shifting the burden of proof in paleoanthropology. The longstanding belief that symbolic thought—and by extension, art—was the exclusive domain of anatomically modern humans is now up for serious debate

When scientists sequenced the genome of this elusive deep-sea creature, they found clues about how squids and octopuses evolved into so many species.

A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.

A mysterious black fungus is thriving inside the ruins of Chernobyl—and scientists believe it may be doing something never seen before in nature. After surviving cosmic radiation aboard the ISS, this strange organism could unlock a radical new form of energy—…

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that black holes already exist, but only that their formation is inevitable in an infinite future we can never observe? In a new theory, Dary…

"The sizes of these radio jets are not comparable to our solar system or even our galaxy."

Scientists found rocks deep inside Earth's mantle that generate hydrogen and could reveal clues about deep energy and the origin of life.

After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar system—and it's an absolute giant.