In sending a car-sized rotorcraft to explore Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly mission will undertake an unprecedented voyage of scientific discovery. And

The once-great "megaberg" is just days or weeks away from complete disintegration.

Many people remember the solar storm of May 2024, which saw auroras spread into areas that very rarely get to see them.

In 1972, an Apollo 16 astronaut left a family photo on the Moon, a surprising and personal memento that still sparks curiosity today.

In high-intensity laser–matter interactions, including laser-induced particle acceleration, physicists generally want to work with the highest possible focused laser peak power, which is the ratio of energy per unit area to pulse duration. Therefore, for the …

Friday, Jan. 9, 2026: Your daily update on NASA's astronaut medical evacuation from the International Space Station.

SpaceX's Super Heavy booster is now stacked and ready for Starship's crucial 12th test flight, marking a significant step towards interplanetary missions and Mars exploration.

A new study demonstrates that ordinary espresso can effectively stain biological samples for electron microscopy. This household beverage offers a safe, low-cost alternative to the radioactive chemicals traditionally used in labs.

"We're not saying, and we can't say, that there's no life in Europa. What we're saying is that it's a harder proposition, based on our results."

Physicists from Trinity College Dublin believe new insights into the behavior of light may offer a new means of solving one of science's oldest challenges—how to turn heat into useful energy.

A nearly-complete adult jawbone, a partial adult jawbone, the jawbone of a child, a vertebrae and some teeth were discovered.

An astronomer who has made ground-breaking discoveries about millisecond pulsars, gamma-ray bursts and supernovae and an "exemplary" mathematical geophysicist specia...

The massive sunspot that sparked an "extreme" geomagnetic storm in May 2024 unleashed hundreds of other dangerous solar flares, including a hidden X-class outburst, a new paper reveals. The study sets a record for the longest continuous observation of a singl…

China's Space Telescope has achieved a breakthrough in scientific simulation, laying the groundwork for its launch and a future of major discoveries in space exploration.

An owl snuck in the backdoor of a woman's house in Florida, then promptly fell asleep. Hours later, he continued to snooze. When a rescuer arrived, he moved from room to room before heading out.

The way Sahelanthropus tchadensis moved has long been debated. The discovery of a small bump on the front of the thigh bone is "beyond convincing" evidence this ape was bipedal.

To understand how global warming could influence future climate, scientists look to the Paleogene Period that began 66 million years ago, covering a time when Earth's atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were two to four times higher than they are today.

Scientists say all signs indicate the so-called "megaberg" could be just days or weeks from totally disintegrating.

Scientists have discovered thriving colonies of marine life growing where no one expected, on floating plastic deep in the Pacific Ocean.

China’s Rover Zhurong has just made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars that challenges everything we thought we knew about the planet’s history.

A massive diamond just unearthed in Botswana has stunned scientists, not for its size, but for a shocking feature hidden inside. Split perfectly in two, the gem holds secrets that could rewrite what we know about Earth's ancient past.

Breaking the plasma density limit brings researchers a step closer to viable fusion reactors.

"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting stronger and stronger upper limits, so alternative scenarios have to be considered."

Jupiter reaches opposition on Jan. 10, when it will shine all night at its brightest as Earth moves between the giant planet and the sun.

Most astronomers agree that young galaxy clusters should be relatively cool compared to older ones. But researchers recently found a very young cluster that’s hotter than the surface of the sun. More on why the finding is so shocking, plus elephant’s remarkab…