Scientists have created a new way to watch plants breathe—live and in high definition—while tracking exactly how much carbon and water they exchange with the air. The breakthrough could help unlock crops that grow smarter, stronger, and more drought-resistant.

During a night dive in Bali, an underwater photographer happened upon a fascinating example of symbiosis between a carrier crab and an upside-down jellyfish.

Even the youngest galaxies are often dust-rich, even with very low levels of heavy elements. Nearby dwarf galaxy Sextans A explains why.

An image of comet 3I/ATLAS captured in November 2025 shows it glowing a green hue, revealing the effects of its close approach to our Sun.

The gas giant will be at its brightest this week until 2034.

In July 2024, Perseverance cored Sapphire Canyon mudstone, detecting vivianite, greigite and sulfur - signals consistent with a potential biosignature.

As work continues for a mission to raise the orbit of NASA’s Swift spacecraft, project officials are also pursuing steps to extend the satellite’s life.

Chinese researchers report experimentally overcoming the Greenwald density limit in tokamak fusion reactors

"It's a bit like a boat moving through water."

Life truly is radiant, according to an experiment conducted by researchers from the University of Calgary and the National Research Council of Canada.

South Africa’s Witwatersrand Basin and the Virginia Gas Project supply a rare element vital for MRI scanners; estimates exceed 400 billion cubic feet.

Liftoff of Starship Flight 12 is expected in the next few months.

An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic evolution.

A 200,000-year-old molar from Denisova Cave has provided a glimpse into the life of Denisovans, revealing startling new insights into their interactions with other human species.

A new study led by a Georgia State University astronomy graduate student is a major step forward in the search for stars that could host Earth-like planets that may prove to be good havens for life to develop. Sebastián Carrazco-Gaxiola shared the results at …

When it comes to understanding the universe, what we know is only a sliver of the whole picture.

They survived the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, but something else sealed their fate just a few hundred thousand years later.

The image was captured in November 2025, showing how lighting changes throughout the day on Mars.

The hydrogen cloud is a remnant of the universe's early formation, NASA said in a news release.

"This is a tale of a failed galaxy."

A Chinese team’s gravity machine could change how we build for the Moon and Mars.

Nasa and the European Space Agency’s probes are due to arrive at Europa in 2031-32 to discover if it can support life. A study says it cannot

Astronomers know exactly when this rare exoplanet alignment will happen, but still might miss it.

New evidence suggests that upright walking may have begun 7 million years ago, reshaping what we thought we knew about our earliest ancestors.

Scientists have long been confused about ‘missing’ animal fossils.