Billions of sea stars have wasted away in recent years, their crustose, spiny bodies melted to goop by a mysterious illness known as sea star wasting disease.

When the James Webb Space Telescope first came online in 2022, it immediately spotted something astronomers had never seen before: "little red dots...

Topological quantum systems are physical systems exhibiting properties that depend on the overall connectivity of their underlying lattice, as opposed to local interactions and their microscopic structure. Predicting the evolution of these systems over time a…

The bright band of the Milky Way and the faint glow of "zodiacal light" meet above the mountains of Chile's Atacama Desert in this stunning night sky photo.

Scientists have, for the first time, experimentally proven that angular momentum is conserved even when a single photon splits into two, pushing quantum physics to its most fundamental limits. Using ultra-precise equipment, the team captured this elusive proc…

Astronomers found hidden cosmic channels, like tunnels, connecting our solar system to distant stars, reshaping views of interstellar space.

By controlling this state, researchers can enable the development of smarter, reconfigurable, and energy-efficient devices that function like the brain. Researchers at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have successfully created a new form of magneti…

The moon is becoming less visible every night.

Human evolution wasn’t a straight line. Our tree of life? More of a shrub.

Scientists used powerful X-rays to see mineral “shadows” where blood once flowed through vessels in a Tyrannosaurus rex rib.

Blue Origin says to expect a big uptick of activity at New Glenn's launchpad.

Scientists reveal how the Dsup protein found in tardigrades protects DNA from extreme radiation, which is key for future space missions.

The agency has cheaper and farther-reaching missions in its sights.

A team of scientists from Korea and Japan has discovered a new type of crystal that can "breathe"—releasing and absorbing oxygen repeatedly at relatively low temperatures. This unique ability could transform the way we develop clean energy technologies, inclu…

A plucked guitar string can vibrate for seconds before falling silent. A playground swing, emptied of its passenger, will gradually come to rest. These are what physicists call "damped harmonic oscillators" and are well understood in terms of Newton's laws of…

Unexpected X-ray polarization challenges long-held ideas about how black holes behave.

Researchers have combined 15 years' worth of radio data to peer through the cone of a high-energy jet and unravel the magnetic mysteries of a "blazar" billions of light-years from Earth. The new findings also shed light on the origin of elusive "ghost particl…

Scientists have identified a new species of ancient whale with cartoonish bulging eyes that they say would have made it look like a Pokémon.

A study of March's Myanmar earthquake has found that strike-slip faults don't necessarily repeat past behavior, meaning the San Andreas fault could unleash a bigger quake than any seen before.

NASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however.

Volcanic ash in central Turkey has unveiled a stunning fossil record that may rewrite the story of mammal and human evolution.

Astronomers found hidden cosmic channels, like tunnels, connecting our solar system to distant stars, reshaping views of interstellar space.

Breakthrough science or deep-sea devastation?

Astronomers have found oxygen in the universe’s most distant known galaxy—rewriting the timeline of cosmic evolution just 300 million years after the Big Bang.

There may be a habitable world at the Sun's closest solar twin.