Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak, known widely as "Mr. Eclipse."

The first observations of Pluto by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal dramatic phenomena on its surface, like seasonal cycles of volatile ice redistribution across its surface, and material being pulled from its very atmosphere onto its main sate…

Researchers at MIT used a new mapping technique to observe heat moving as a wave and bouncing back and forth

ASKAP telescope discovered Teleios, a perfectly spherical radio-only object in Milky Way with diameter up to 157 light-years.

New theory makes testable predictions.

Beneath the Arctic’s frozen darkness, scientists have encountered rare black smokers in a place where they were never expected.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have for the first time detected silicon monoxide in the atmosphere of the ultrahot Jupiter.

Space isn't a great medium for sound, but it still gets noisy. It's just that humans can't hear it

Graphite, long thought mundane, hides a shocking secret — it can become a superconducting magnet when cooled and configured just right. This breaks fundamental assumptions in physics.

A terrifying video shows dozens of tourists fleeing a volcanic eruption of Mount Etna on the island of Sicily.

A team led by China University of Geosciences has described a new species of sauropod, Jinchuanloong niedu, from a partial skeleton and nearly complete skull found in northwestern China, adding a rare non-neosauropod eusauropod to the Middle Jurassic record o…

"Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star opened the door to exploring this profound mystery.

A new quantum material developed at Rice University combines unique symmetry-driven properties with superconductivity. A team of physicists from Rice University, led by Ming Yi and Emilia Morosan, has created a groundbreaking new material that could power the…

Scientists at the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (SR-Tiget), Milan, have found that gene editing using CRISPR-Cas9 in combination with AAV6 vectors can trigger inflammatory and senescence-like responses in blood stem cells, compromising thei…

"The difference between a supercollider and a black hole is that black holes are far away, but nevertheless, these particles will get to us.”

Scientists have revealed a novel means of tracking everything from wildlife to the presence of illicit substances using DNA that is readily detectable in the environment.

Physicists at Loughborough University have used cutting-edge nanotechnology to create what they believe may be "the world's smallest violin," which is small enough to fit within the width of a human hair.

A team of researchers with a variety of backgrounds and affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. has taken a realistic approach to looking at the question of whether Mars could be terraformed. In their paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy,…

: Diagnosing a borkage from a million miles away

New research suggests there may be a narrow window of possibility for life to persist on the icy moons of the outer solar system.

“Soooooo much going on in this picture.”…

Astronomers from the Yunnan University in China and other institutions have carried out photometric and spectroscopic observations of a recently detected supernova designated SN 2024aecx. Results of the observational campaign, published May 26 on the arXiv pr…

At some point, RNA must have replicated itself before the evolutionary arrival of DNA and proteins, and now we might know how.

Beneath the Pacific Ocean lies a hidden mystery that challenges what we know about Earth's interior. Scientists have detected unusual seismic patterns that don’t fit established models.

Walnut consumption modifies the fecal microbiota and metabolome, improves insulin response and reduces gut permeability in adults with obesity.