Buried deep beneath the Earth’s surface, scientists have uncovered a mysterious group of microbes unlike anything known before.

Identifying quantum phases of matters has quantum computers stumped and could represent a boundary to physical observation itself.

“I do think we’re rapidly approaching the point where it will be a significant impact.”…

Can we find water ice on the moon? Only if we know where to look, scientists say

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object with mass pulls on every other ...

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.

Comet Lemmon — C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) — and Comet SWAN — C/2025 R2 (SWAN) — are the first comets visible in binoculars since Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS in October 2024.

Rice University researchers have captured the temperature profile of quark-gluon plasma, the ultra-hot state of matter from the dawn of the universe. By analyzing rare electron-positron emissions from atomic collisions, they determined precise temperatures at…

Low clouds matter most for albedo and sunlight reflection. They bounce a lot of sunlight back to space. Last year, low cloud cover decreased.

Greenland is writhing as eons of ice accumulation and steady melting cause its foundations to change shape.

Flatworms are infamous in biology labs for their surreal ability to regenerate heads when you decapitate them.

Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky logged another 6 hours and 54 minutes outside the International Space Station today (Oct. 28).

SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch of private Griffin moon lander now targeting mid-2026

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio color image of the Milky Way ever assembled. This spectacular new image captures the Southern Hemisphere view of our Milky Way galaxy, r…

An astonishing find inside a 200 million-year-old coral structure has left scientists rethinking ancient marine life.

NASA's SDO captured a jack-o'-lantern-like face on the sun as a coronal hole sends solar wind toward Earth ahead of Halloween.

12-year-old discovers 2 possible new asteroids

Everyone’s favorite interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS isn’t really hiding near perihelion this week, as amateur astronomers reveal. Don’t believe the breathless ballyhoo that you’re currently reading around the web about interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS. In a clockwork …

This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537—the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), Webb has revealed never-before-seen details in this picturesque planetary neb…

Astronomers spot a white dwarf tearing apart a planet billions of years after its death, defying current models of planetary system evolution.

Scientists from the Canadian Museum of Nature have announced the discovery and description of an extinct rhinoceros from the Canadian High Arctic. The nearly complete fossil skeleton of the new species was recovered from the fossil-rich lake deposits in Haugh…

Researchers have long been attempting to piece together the trek of Neanderthals from Europe into Asia around the Middle and Upper Paleolithic time periods. This time marks the eventual disappearance of Neanderthals and the transition to a Homo-sapien-dominat…

The first evidence of second-generation black holes might have finally been found.

While scouring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers spotted Capotauro, "one of the most puzzling discoveries" to date.