The discovery could challenge current ideas about how galaxies formed in the early universe.

"In science fiction, there are scenes where a beam is fired at something to destroy it, causing an explosion with debris flying back at the shooter. Similar things occur in real astronomical phenomena, but with greater intensity."

Physicists from the University of Copenhagen have begun using the gigantic magnetic fields of galaxy clusters to observe distant black holes in their search for an elusive particle that has stumped scientists for decades.

A new microscope allows scientists to watch electrons shake graphene’s atoms in real time, revealing something called "phasons."

Let us imagine for a moment that the new interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS is a spacecraft, guided to send mini-probes that will arrive at…

Hidden magma chambers, rising heat, and global climate implications are now under intense scrutiny. The stakes go far beyond the American West — and the timeline may be shorter than expected.

Dolphins and orcas have crossed an invisible line in evolution—locking themselves into the ocean with no way back.

The ghostly light, which was triggered by a rocket reentry, sailed across the night sky as skywatchers across the U.S. looked up to see "shooting stars" streak across the heavens. However, experts are confused over which spacecraft is responsible.

From the New York Times in the early 1900s to Elon Musk’s goals. this we’ve been trying to go to Mars for a century.

A spectacular “planet parade” (also called an alignment) featuring six planets is visible during August. Here’s when and where to look on Saturday, Aug. 16.

The Universe was born incredibly hot, and has expanded and cooled ever since. Could life have begun back when space was "room temperature?"

The Federal Aviation Administration has dismissed the entire membership of a commercial space advisory committee.

When global events set our minds to wondering if humanity has what it takes to persist, it's natural to wonder about other worlds, other life, other intelligent species, and if those others might be better suited to survive whatever Great Filters they face.

Parent emerged over 4,000 years ago in Siberia, farther east than many thought, then rapidly spread west Ancient DNA is reshaping the story of Europe’s Uralic languages: instead of the Urals, their trail leads ~4,500 years back to Yakutia in northeastern Sibe…

A Neanderthal AMPD1 variant still present in some Europeans lowers muscle efficiency and may hinder elite athletic ability. AMPD1 is an enzyme essential for producing energy in muscles and maintaining normal muscular performance. Genetic mutations that reduce…

Satellites, including those used for GPS and communications, will face greater risks in coming decades during solar-triggered geomagnetic storms because of the effect climate pollution has on Earth’s atmosphere, a new study found.

New England Wildlife Center (NEWC) were helping a small owl on the side of a busy road in Massachusetts, when they noticed something wrong with his eyes.

"The planet gets in the way from the point of view of any one spacecraft, so we had to spread them around the planet to look everywhere all at once."

NASA's Artemis 2 mission is one step closer to history as the Orion spacecraft powers up for its crewed journey around the Moon.

A new nuclear clock, which uses the low-energy transition in the nucleus of a thorium-229 atom, could help detect the most elusive particle in the universe.

The unusual object bares a striking resemblance to a witch’s hat.

In everyday life, continuously doing work on a system is found to heat it up. Rubbing your hands together warms them. Hammering a piece of metal makes it hot. Even without knowing the equations, we learn from experience: driving any system, whether by stirrin…

Researchers in Japan have genetically transferred a unique courtship behavior from one fruit fly species to another. By turning on a single gene in insulin-producing neurons, the team successfully made a species of fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) perform …

In a new study led by Oxford University's Department of Chemistry, chemists have demonstrated the synthesis of a cyclocarbon that is stable enough for spectroscopic characterization in solution at room temperature. The study is published in the journal Scienc…

With help from AI, astronomers have spotted a never-before-seen kind of supernova that seems to have been blowing up just as it was trying to gobble down a black hole.