Betelgeuse is one of the weirdest stars in the sky, but astronomers can now explain one of its most enduring mysteries.

A lot could happen in space next year, but let's get real about what actually will.

A lot could happen in space this year, but let's get real about what actually will.

In this Review, the authors discuss how artificial intelligence can aid microbial gene function discovery.

The study looked at how predators affect other predators.

"The Chinese may well beat the U.S. with a grab sample."

In the race to embrace new technologies, some ecologists fear their field is losing touch with nature.

About 8,000 years after entering the Oort Cloud of the solar system at a distance of 100,000 times the Earth-Sun separation, the…

Scientists have created a new way to watch plants breathe—live and in high definition—while tracking exactly how much carbon and water they exchange with the air. The breakthrough could help unlock crops that grow smarter, stronger, and more drought-resistant.

During a night dive in Bali, an underwater photographer happened upon a fascinating example of symbiosis between a carrier crab and an upside-down jellyfish.

Even the youngest galaxies are often dust-rich, even with very low levels of heavy elements. Nearby dwarf galaxy Sextans A explains why.

An image of comet 3I/ATLAS captured in November 2025 shows it glowing a green hue, revealing the effects of its close approach to our Sun.

The gas giant will be at its brightest this week until 2034.

In July 2024, Perseverance cored Sapphire Canyon mudstone, detecting vivianite, greigite and sulfur - signals consistent with a potential biosignature.

As work continues for a mission to raise the orbit of NASA’s Swift spacecraft, project officials are also pursuing steps to extend the satellite’s life.

Chinese researchers report experimentally overcoming the Greenwald density limit in tokamak fusion reactors

"It's a bit like a boat moving through water."

Life truly is radiant, according to an experiment conducted by researchers from the University of Calgary and the National Research Council of Canada.

South Africa’s Witwatersrand Basin and the Virginia Gas Project supply a rare element vital for MRI scanners; estimates exceed 400 billion cubic feet.

Liftoff of Starship Flight 12 is expected in the next few months.

An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic evolution.

A 200,000-year-old molar from Denisova Cave has provided a glimpse into the life of Denisovans, revealing startling new insights into their interactions with other human species.

A new study led by a Georgia State University astronomy graduate student is a major step forward in the search for stars that could host Earth-like planets that may prove to be good havens for life to develop. Sebastián Carrazco-Gaxiola shared the results at …

When it comes to understanding the universe, what we know is only a sliver of the whole picture.

They survived the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, but something else sealed their fate just a few hundred thousand years later.