One of the most elegant theories about the origins of life on our planet is that it was kick-started by a delivery from outer space. This idea suggests that prebiotic molecules—the building blocks of life—were transported here by asteroids or other celestial …

Disrupting the chemical messages that oral bacteria use to coordinate growth may help prevent disease by keeping plaque communities in a healthier state. Like all living things, bacteria adapt in order to survive. Over time, many have become resistant to wide…

Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing new data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has d…

This week, researchers reported that weight and health markers may rebound when patients stop using some of the new hormonal gastric inhibitory polypeptide drugs. A prototype device can restore lost olfactory sense. And a new universal law predicts how brittl…

Hidden beneath Earth’s surface lie two massive structures that defy everything we thought we knew about our planet’s formation. Now, a groundbreaking discovery reveals they may be far older—and far stranger—than anyone imagined.

In a study published in Physical Review Letters, physicists have demonstrated that black holes satisfy the third law of thermodynamics, which states that entropy remains positive and vanishes at extremely low temperatures, just like ordinary quantum systems. …

The Eye of the Sahara, a vast geological formation in Mauritania, holds secrets that scientists are only beginning to understand, with new insights provided by ESA's stunning satellite imagery.

A probe detected a zigzag-like disturbance in the magnetic frontier between the Earth and the Sun.

Penn State scientists discovered seven new ceramics by simply removing oxygen—opening a path to materials once beyond reach. Sometimes, less truly is more. By removing oxygen during the synthesis process, a team of materials scientists at Penn State successfu…

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions suggest.

These images mark an early milestone in the mission, confirming that OSIRIS-APEX is healthy and on course for its 2029 encounter with Apophis.

Thankfully, there's a livestream.

Scientists who, studying the available data, have concluded that 3I/ATLAS is, to paraphrase, a comet doing comet things.

The Nikon 12x25 S image-stabilized binoculars may be small and compact, but they provide shake-free views of wildlife and the night sky that fit in your pocket.

A robotic assistant called the Deployment Guidance System (DGS) scans the seafloor and determines the best place for a coral to spawn.

A cosmological simulation study by researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has systematically revealed, for the first time, how the interaction between dark matter and dark energy significantly influences the …

When describing collective properties of macroscopic physical systems, microscopic fluctuations are typically averaged out, leaving a description of the typical behavior of the systems. While this simplification has its advantages, it fails to capture the imp…

This fall, when Adam Leontowich headed to southeast Saskatchewan to hunt whitetailed deer and ruffed grouse, he once again opted for lead-free ammunition—cartridges with copper bullets for his .308 rifle and shells with steel pellets for his 12-gauge shotgun.…

A new paper published in Nature Communications could put scientists on the path to understanding one of the wildest, hottest, and most densely packed places in the universe: a neutron star.

Record-sharp solar flare images reveal ultra-thin coronal loops on the Sun, reshaping flare models and space weather forecasting.

Arizona residents can see one of the most striking sky events as the state ranks No. 2 in U.S. to see December’s Cold Moon Supermoon.

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ground-based observations at this wavelength."

One of the last woolly rhinos was found inside the belly of a 14,000-year-old puppy.

When a plate drops or a glass smashes, you're annoyed by the mess and the cost of replacing them. But for some physicists, the broken pieces are a source of fascination: Why does everything break into such a huge variety of sizes? Now, Emmanuel Villermaux at …

To paraphrase the Declaration of Independence in the context of science: