It poses no threat to Earth, but this comet, called C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), has enraptured astronomers ever since its discovery in 2021. The...

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is testing a series of large spacecraft rolls that will help it hunt for water.

watchOS 26 adds several new Apple Intelligence features to the Apple Watch, but they each have their own hardware requirements.

V462 Lupi will soon vanish from the night sky, but before it does, the dark skies around the new moon present a perfect time to head away from city lights to hunt down the light from this ancient nova.

New eclipsing binary stars discovered: Citizen scientists help identify 7,936 new pairs, advancing research on stellar physics and exoplanet detection.

Caffeine had the biggest effect, but that might not be a surprise.

There will be several chances to see the shadow of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, pass across the ringed planet's Earth-facing surface over the next few months. The rare spectacle is only visible every 15 years.

Present-day disk galaxies often contain a thick, star-filled outer disk and an embedded thin disk of stars. For instance, our own Milky Way galaxy’s thick

The number of scientific papers that rely on AI has quadrupled, and the scope of problems AI can tackle is expanding by the day.

Researchers have shown that AI can detect personality traits from written text and, crucially, now understand how these models make decisions.

Ramakrishna Podila, a materials physicist in the Clemson University Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Podila’s research is highly interdisciplinary and combines physics, chemistry, biology and materials science. …

Giant ceramic pots made centuries to millennia ago were found to hold human bones, while others held a mixture of seeds and the remains of fish, frogs and turtles.

A new star, a nova dubbed V462 Lupi, is now visible to the naked eye from North America.

A groundbreaking experiment off the coast of Alaska has unlocked a 20-minute “conversation” with a humpback whale. Using cutting-edge AI, scientists decoded complex whale vocalizations, revealing unexpected patterns in their communication.

Scientists have detected rhythmic pulses of molten rock rising beneath eastern Africa, threatening to pull the continent apart.

In a recent study published in Communications Psychology, researchers from NYU led by Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at NYU Tandon and Neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine Adeen Flinker and Postdoctoral Researcher Adam Morgan used high-…

Geologic records reveal that magnetic field strength and oxygen levels rise and fall together, implying deep-Earth processes influence surface habitability.

An ancient site in Turkey has just rewritten the history of timekeeping. New findings suggest that a 12,000-year-old monument could be the key to humanity's first solar calendar.

Three intertwined time directions may underpin everything, turning space into mere “paint on the canvas” and pushing physics toward a long-sought theory of everything.

Researchers discovered two previously unknown species of parasitic fungi inside ancient amber fossils.

"We are given rules by our own institutions about what we can and cannot say."

California ground squirrels surprise scientists with their newly discovered taste for mammalian flesh.

Astronomers confirm ‘lite intermediate’ black holes, too large for ordinary stars, revealing clues about early stellar origins.

Chinese scientists push for cubesat swarm mission to fly by infamous asteroid Apophis China could launch a mission involving multiple flybys of asteroid Apophis with a swarm of cubesats when the rocky body approaches Earth in 2029.

For over 50 years, it’s been the scientifically accepted theory describing the origin of the Universe. It’s time we all learned its truths.