Tossing a bad guy into the Sun sounds simple enough, but orbital mechanics make it a far trickier task than you'd expect.

Astronomers have revolutionized our understanding of a collection of stars in the northern sky called the Pleiades. They used data from NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and other observatories as NASA explores the secrets of the universe fo…

New research shows that light’s magnetic field is far more influential than scientists once believed. The team found that this magnetic component significantly affects how light rotates as it passes through certain materials. Their work challenges a 180-year-…

In a patch of the Pacific’s abyssal plain, scientists a surprising phenomenon called “dark oxygen production.”

Over 4 meters long and with "bone blades" for teeth, Dunkleosteus was a right oddball.

CRISPR-edited fungus is cheaper, greener, and more nutritious than chicken.

These spacecraft come in all shapes and sizes, from all over the world.

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden universe shapes the realms that we can see."

The genome has long served as the gold standard in ancient DNA research. But now, for the first time, the transcriptome—the RNA record—is on the table, offering a second, deeper layer of biological truth from the Ice Age.

A red dwarf star just unleashed an explosive burst so powerful it could destroy planets. Could this event impact life elsewhere?

The tectonic plates under Africa and Asia are slowly drifting apart, as the Gulf of Suez that separates these two land masses continues to widen at a rate of about 0.26–0.55 millimeters per year.

"This is a one-of-a-kind system with an incredibly rare orbital period."

Cancer research, drug safety testing and aging biology may all gain a major boost from a new fluorescent sensor developed at Utrecht University. This new tool allows scientists to watch DNA damage and repair unfold in real time inside living cells. The develo…

A massive geomagnetic superstorm in May 2024 gave scientists an unprecedented look at how Earth’s plasma shield collapses and slowly rebuilds under extreme solar pressure. Using the perfectly positioned Arase satellite, researchers watched the plasmasphere sh…

On Nov. 20, the new moon will be the farthest it has been from Earth since 2020 and 2043 in a rare astronomical event.

MIT astronomers used the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer to identify key features in the innermost region of a white dwarf system called an intermediate polar. This extremely energetic environment has been inaccessible to most telescopes until now.

NASA's Perseverance rover discovers shiny metallic rock on Mars that could be a meteorite from an ancient asteroid, containing high levels of iron and nickel...

Scientists have found evidence suggesting that kissing dates back up to 21 million years and that our ape ancestors and Neanderthals likely locked lips, research published Wednesday said.

As so often happens in science, when Andrea Stöllner's experiments didn't work as expected, they led her to something even more interesting – a way to study what might be the initial spark of lightning, using lasers and a single microscopic particle.

Astronomers have captured spectacular images of a comet, C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), breaking apart in three large pieces during its journey.

MIT McGovern Institute researchers find a surprising parallel in the ways humans and new AI models solve complex problems.

The human superior temporal gyrus processes acoustic–phonetic properties of speech regardless of whether the language is familiar to the listener, but only encodes word boundaries and language-specific sound sequences if the language is known.

Running 31-inch Mickey Thompson tires and equipped with lights and a rack, this classic pony car makes for one wild ride.

A research team from the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague has discovered Solarion arienae, an extremely rare and morphologically unique unicellular eukaryote that sheds new light on early eukaryotic evolution.

In 1887, one of the most important experiments in the history of physics took place. American scientists Michelson and Morley failed to measure the speed of Earth by comparing the speed of light in the direction of Earth's motion with that perpendicular to it…