Free-floating planets, or as they are more commonly known, rogue planets, wander interstellar space completely alone. Saying there might be a lot of them is a bit of an understatement. Recent estimates put the number of rogue planets at something equivalent t…

A water system activation at the Thad Cochran Test Stand (B-2) on Jan. 30 at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, helped capture critical data to support testing a new SLS (Space Launch System) stage expected to fly on the Artemis IV m…

We describe electricity as a flow, but that’s not what happens in a typical wire. Physicists have begun to induce electrons to act like fluids, an effort that could illuminate new ways of thinking about quantum systems.

Researchers in China have isolated the effects of electronic friction, showing for the first time how the subtle drag force it imparts at sliding interfaces can be controlled. They demonstrate that it can be tuned by applying a voltage, or switched off entire…

New research reveals how quiet galactic engines can help shape entire galaxies.

For the first time, physicists have developed a model that explains the origins of unusually stable magic nuclei based directly on the interactions between their protons and neutrons. Published in Physical Review Letters, the research could help scientists be…

Deep beneath the ocean's waves, where no light reaches and the pressure is crushing, a team of researchers has found life thriving in ways that defy all expectations.

Neutrinos are very small, neutral subatomic particles that rarely interact with ordinary matter and are thus sometimes referred to as ghost particles. There are three known types (i.e., flavors) of neutrinos, dubbed muon, electron and tau neutrinos.

The creature’s staggering size stunned experts, and its location raises even bigger questions about how Jurassic giants roamed the planet.

The last common ancestor of all living things did not just suddenly appear on Earth roughly 4.2 billion years ago.

GRBs have been puzzling scientists the world 'round for years.

Waterfalls are sites where gravity pulls water down a steep cliff. This setup endows the water with rapid motion as it falls down the…

Machine learning is helping neuroscientists organize vast quantities of cells’ genetic data in the latest neurobiological cartography effort.

The night sky is full of wonder. Here's what to look out for tonight.

The Dying Children Who Suddenly Wake Up: What happens to kids who experience terminal lucidity—and the caregivers who tend to them.

"This discovery contributes to a deeper understanding of the processes that have shaped Venus's evolution and opens new perspectives for the study of the planet."

General Galactic, cofounded by a former SpaceX engineer, plans to test its water-based propellant this fall. If successful, it could help usher in a new era of space travel. That's a big “if.”

The English physicist was diagnosed with ALS at age 21 and managed to live 55 years longer than science predicted.

Space exploration experts have expressed concerns over the Artemis II spacesuits that will be worn by astronauts for NASA's missions, particularly its heft.

The new crew will replace four station fliers who returned to Earth ahead of schedule last month due to a medical issue.

Hubble observations reveal a giant, turbulent planet-forming disk that may reshape theories of how planetary systems develop.

It's not rocket science that kept America from returning to the moon. It's state capacity.

Using ideas borrowed from topological photonics, researchers in Singapore, France and the US have designed a compact antenna capable of handling information-rich terahertz (THz) signals. Reporting their results in Nature Photonics, the team, led by Ranjan Sin…

Rows of preserved specimen jars from Charles Darwin's iconic Galapagos voyage have sat, unopened, in the archives of London's Natural History Museum (NHM) for 200 years.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was designed to look back in time and study galaxies that existed shortly after the Big Bang. In so doing, scientists hoped to gain a better understanding of how the universe has evolved from the earliest cosmological epo…