In 2016, the Curiosity rover came across something really peculiar in Gale Crater on Mars.

Their swirling, clustering behavior may someday inform the design of self-assembling robotic swarms. A starfish embryo, in its earliest stages, before it sprouts its distinctive tentacles, looks like a small bead and spins in the water like a miniature ball b…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to both dazzle and amaze with its latest image, this time of Galaxy IC 5332, also known as PGC 71775, which is an intermediate spiral galaxy located approximately 30 million light years away. This comes after JW…

The Southern Delta Aquariids, Alpha Capricornids and Piscis Austrinids will all be at their peak this week.

UNSW Sydney researchers identify physical factors that determine how quickly two DNA strands can come together, resolving a decades-old conundrum.

MIT researchers demonstrated a 3D-printed plasma sensor for satellites that works just as well as the expensive semiconductor sensors that take weeks of intricate fabrication in a cleanroom. These durable, precise sensors could be used on CubeSats, which are …

Coral reefs are home to a spectacular variety of fish. A new study shows that much of this diversity is driven by a relatively recent innovation among bony fish – feeding by biting prey from surfaces.

When Minecraft players defeat the Ender Dragon in Survival Mode, they receive an endgame poem before being loaded back into the game.

Lee Billings, senior editor of space and physics for Scientific American, joins us to talk about the latest scientific discoveries of the James Webb Space Telescope and the secrets of the universe astronomers hope to unlock.

The binary stars combined have the mass equivalent to 12 times that of our Sun, while the tertiary star alone is as massive as 16 Suns combined.

Researchers have been able to use an analysis of ancient rock crystals – and the magnetism records locked inside them – to trace back the history of Earth's inner core across hundreds of millions of years.

A citizen astronomer participating in the U.S. National Science Foundation-supported Backyard Worlds program examined archival data provided by the Community

A team led by planetary scientists has discovered shady locations within pits on the moon that always hover around a comfortable 63 degrees Fahrenheit. The pits, and caves to which they may lead, would make safer, more thermally stable base camps for lunar ex…

Research drawing on the quantum 'anti-butterfly effect' solves a longstanding experimental problem in physics and establishes a method for benchmarking the performance of quantum computers.

A new AI program observed physical phenomena and uncovered relevant variables -- a necessary precursor to any physics theory. But the variables it discovered were unexpected.

SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A senior official of the U.S. space agency has said he was “very impressed” by South …

A 400-foot wide asteroid will make a close approach to Earth on July 29, 2022. The asteroid, known as 2016 CZ31, is almost twice the height of Qutub Minar, which is 239 metres high.

This weekend is your best chance to see "shooting stars" in 2022 as three meteor showers reach their best nights simultaneously.

Sharks may have been perceived as one of the most terrifying aquatic animals, as suggested by many thrillers we see on television. Here are 5 of the world's largest sharks venturing in or around the border of the deep sea.

As NASA's Juno mission completed its 43rd close flyby of Jupiter on July 5, 2022, its JunoCam instrument captured this striking view of vortices near the planet's north pole.

China’s latest space mission was a success, sending the new Wentian lab module to its Tiangong space station, but the Long March 5B rocket booster (also referred to as a CZ-5B) that sent it to orbit is set to make an impact of its own... literally.

A team of researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi's Advanced Microfluidics and Microdevices Laboratory (AMMLab) have developed new kind of Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) probes in true three-dimensional shapes they call 3DTIPs. AFM technology allows scientists to obser…

Both planets face dust storms—and the occasional flight delays that come with them.

NASA has given three companies $5 million contracts to develop mini reactors capable of generating nuclear power on the moon by 2031.

But that’s not to say that the moon hasn’t seen its fair share of asteroid impacts.