You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, while X-rays reveal its internal structures and infrared captures a material's radiating heat. Now, MIT physicists have used terahert…

An impulsive X4.2 solar flare sparked strong radio blackouts across Africa and Europe as the giant sunspot continues to rage.

"There is a growing chasm between theory and observation related to the early universe, which presents compelling questions to be explored going forward."

This humongous fungus is the biggest organism in the world

Raw footage captured a spacecraft's reentry into Earth's atmosphere at a mighty speed of Mach 25

For more than a century, the Green River's course through the Uinta Mountains in Utah's northeast has been a geological mystery, seemingly defying physics.

: Failed deorbit burn grounds workhorse rocket

A planet that may exist, and may be habitable or may be frozen, has been discovered on an Earth-like orbit around a star 146 light-years away

Jupiter is smaller and flatter than scientists previously thought, new measurements of the gas giant reveal.

Science News: Bright white rocks. Scattered across the rusty red plains of Mars. NASA’s Perseverance rover spotted them in Jezero crater which the scientists have b.

Many collaborations have used JWST to take deep-field images: some wider and some deeper than others. Here's how it can surpass them all.

Very-long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a technique in radio astronomy whereby multiple radio telescopes cooperate to bundle their received data and in effect create a much larger singular radi…

Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact simulation suggests that a nuclear option could be a viable last resort to avert an apocalypse.

NASA defended preparations for Artemis 2 after a fueling test had hydrogen leaks like those that bedeviled Artemis 1 more than three years ago.

Researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), in collaboration with the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC), have led the most extensive obser…

If we want to colonize space, we need to figure out the whole reproduction thing.

A double sunset appears to be a true rarity in the cosmos, and general relativity explains why.

If the building-size asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the moon in December 2032, the impact will produce a bright flash that may be visible to the naked eye, a new study finds.

'He's wise and very well educated and so every turn of conversation is rich.'

A fossil jaw found in Ethiopia shows Paranthropus ranged far north, challenging long-held ideas about early human relatives and their diets.

Physicists have long categorized every elementary particle in our three-dimensional universe as being either a boson or a fermion—the former category mostly capturing force carriers like photons, the latter including the building blocks of everyday matter lik…

There's a unique asteroid in space worth around $10 billion billion, and if NASA was feelign generous, it could make us all billionaires

Consciousness remains science’s greatest mystery. A new study explores how it arises—and why solving it could reshape existence.

Quantum technologies, devices and systems that process, store, detect, or transfer information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, have the potential to outperform classical technologies in a variety of tasks. An ongoing quest within quantum engineering is…

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a new dwarf galaxy, which received designation CAPERS-39810. Further investigation of CAPERS-39810 revealed that it is an extremely metal-poor galaxy. The discovery was detailed in a pap…