An earthquake that recently ruptured along a fault line that is eerily similar to the San Andreas killed thousands of people in Myanmar.

An astronomical society journal has issued its first retraction in its 10-year history — for work done by a NASA researcher and a high school student. The duo set out to confirm an astrophysics law…

Fifth Season Launches Apollo 13 Docu; Avi Belkin’s ‘Odyssey’ Tells Tale From Perspective of Jim Lovell

One of the most comprehensive studies of satellite interference at low radio frequencies so far.

On July 3, 2025, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured a rare gigantic jet from the ISS—lightning shooting from a storm top into the upper atmosphere.

A newly discovered dinosaur from Mongolia, Shri rapax, had hands so robust they challenge everything we thought we knew about raptor evolution.

One of the most significant moments in the evolutionary journey of life on this planet was the transition from water to land. This huge step required animals to adapt to new challenges, including supporting their body weight and developing new modes of locomo…

Astronomers using the James Webb telescope have zoomed in on a 'Little Red Dot' that existed just 500 million years after the Big Bang, and found that it may contain the earliest known black hole in the universe.

The astronomical event happens about once every 33 months.

An astrophysicist has made a daring proposal to send a nano-sized spacecraft to the heart of a black hole.

Preprint servers are seeing a rise in submissions seemingly produced by paper mills or with help from AI tools.

In most parts of the world, the apple snail is an invasive pest, but in the lab, they're invaluable piece of the ocular regeneration puzzle.

In a new study, scientists at the University of Missouri looked deep into the universe and found something unexpected. Using infrared images taken from NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), they identified 300 objects that were brighter than they…

Astronomers have discovered Punctum, a bright new object in space that they haven't been able to categorize.

A research team headed by the University of Zurich has developed a powerful new method to precisely edit DNA by combining cutting-edge genetic engineering with artificial intelligence. The work has been published in Nature Biotechnology.

"This mission should be able to image the whole of Pluto. It should be phenomenal."

Uncovering ancient fossils in Africa, scientists are revealing shocking new details about Earth's most devastating mass extinction.

In order to prepare for the journey, the first generation would have to spend 70-80 years in Antarctica.

It turns out those cellulose-based thickening agents found in common foods can be digested. Researchers at the University of British Columbia have shown that our gut bacteria can feed on these large molecules—something thought to not be possible—thanks to enz…

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be a discovery machine, thanks to its wide field of view and resulting torrent of data. Scheduled to launch no

Crewed Mars missions will require a new ascent vehicle

This star factory is the largest and brightest in its host galaxy.

With traits unlike anything alive today, this discovery is rewriting what scientists know about prehistoric life at the bottom of the world—and hinting at a far stranger past than imagined.

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A spectacular “planet parade” (also called an alignment) featuring six planets is visible during August. Here’s when and where to look on Wednesday, Aug. 13.