The EHT captured a surprising polarization reversal around M87*, pointing to rapidly changing magnetic fields near the black hole’s shadow.

Scientists say microscopic wormholes could explain discrepancies in cosmological constants and affect our understanding of quantum mechanics and dark energy.

The Arabian and African tectonic plates failed to pull apart 28 million years ago at the Gulf of Suez, but the area hasn't stopped rifting.

A stunning image of Venus recently went viral on social media, with many calling it the clearest photograph ever taken of the planet. However, doubts about its authenticity have arisen.

Sicily on alert: a new study reveals that a simple seismic earthquake index can predict the rise of magma beneath Mount Etna.

The Eastern Veil Nebula is part of a colossal supernova remnant known as the Cygnus Loop.

Researchers have successfully performed the world's first Milky Way simulation that accurately represents more than 100 billion individual stars over the course of 10 thousand years. This feat was accomplished by combining artificial intelligence (AI) with nu…

A global team harnessed the Fugaku supercomputer to build one of the largest and most realistic virtual mouse cortex models ever created.

The U.S. Space Force is quietly funding a powerful new weapon in orbit—one that could launch satellites in seconds, dodge enemy attacks, and rewrite the rules of space warfare.

The risk is very, very low, but not zero, and some seasons and locations are modestly more dangerous.

Buried beneath Antarctica’s ice lies a colossal network of hidden canyons that scientists have just uncovered—and they’re rewriting everything we thought we knew about rising seas and shifting ocean currents.

The ancient stone-and-tin bowl was discovered 200 years ago in a boggy field in Wales.

While it might seem like an all-or-nothing process, insect metamorphosis likely emerged through gradual evolutionary changes.

For over 10 billion years, the cosmic star-formation rate has been dropping and dropping. Someday, the final star in the Universe will die.

There's hardly any visibility tonight.

Nestled on a hillside in Guangdong Province near Zhaoqing City, the Jinlin crater managed to hide in plain sight until researchers identified it as an impact structure.

We make no claims to be an expert on anything, but we do know that rule number one of working with big, expensive, mission-critical equipment is: Don’t break the big, expensive, mission-criti…

In March of 2024 the [DESI collaboration](https://www.desi.lbl.gov/collaboration/) dropped a bombshell on the cosmological community: slim but significant evidence that dark energy might be getting weaker with time.

Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star’s surface. For the first time, astronomers unveiled the shape of the explo…

So I got an email from Adam Reiss. You know, the guy who was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt for discovering the rate of cosmic expansion is accelerating. He pointed out a few issues with the decelerating U…

A record-shattering Pacific storm in 2024 unleashed waves so massive they were visible from space.

It’s not enough to point a rocket at the Sun and ignite the engines.

The entrance to exhibition. Photo by Meg A. Parsont. By Meg A. Parsont Opening November 17th at the American Museum

Sea urchins may just look like a ball of spikes waiting to be stepped on at the tide pool, but there's much more to these barbed beasts than just roe and teeth.

Astronomers say they spotted signs of a giant explosion releasing from a star beyond our solar system, one powerful enough to destroy a planet’s atmosphere.