On 19 December 2025, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will at long last make its closest approach to Earth.

Smooth filaments stretching for many light-years, seen by the powerful space telescope, could indicate what the right "recipe" is for dark matter.

A hidden “jack-in-the-box” mechanism inside T cells may hold the key to unlocking more powerful cancer immunotherapies.

A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.

Our Standard Model of the Universe, for both particle physics and cosmology, remains intact for now. When will its foundations crack?

Although they are technically gas giants, Uranus and Neptune are referred to as "ice giants" due to their composition.

The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.

As of December 15, 2025, the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS arrived at a distance of about 270 million kilometers from Earth. By December 19…

A new genus and species of nimravid from the middle Oligocene epoch has been identified from the fossilized remains found in northern China.

A massive rock layer unlike anything else found on the planet has been discovered beneath the island of Bermuda, and scientists have been left bemused.The layer measures 12.4 miles thick and sits just below the oceanic crust.

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile has released its final batch of data after 15 years — and it proves that the Hubble tension is very real.

No one has yet created a fully functioning artificial cell. But a research team at Aarhus University has taken a step in that direction:

For a carbon-neutral bioeconomy, processes are needed that can efficiently capture CO2 and convert it into valuable products. Formic acid, or more specifically its salt, formate, is considered a promising candidate as it can be produced from CO₂ using renewab…

A new computational approach developed at the University of Chicago promises to shed light on some of the world's most puzzling materials—from high-temperature superconductors to solar cell semiconductors—by uniting two long-divided scientific perspectives.

Astronomers Observe Spacetime Whirlpool for the First Time: This theoretical phenomenon was discovered after being predicted by Einstein.

A new study is revealing how a key difference in parenting strategies between dinosaurs and mammals could change our understanding of ancient ecosystems.

Our universe is filled with galaxies, in all directions as far as our instruments can see. Some researchers estimate that there are as many as 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe. At first glance, these galaxies might appear to be randomly scattere…

Australian researchers have played a central role in a landmark result from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment in South Dakota—the world's most sensitive dark matter detector. Today, scientists working on the experiment report they have further narrowed constrain…

When postdoctoral researcher Matthew Zipple releases lab mice into a large, enclosed field just off Cornell's campus, something remarkable happens.

Policies should reflect the ‘new reality’ of researchers’ increasing reliance on tools that can summarize manuscripts and draft reports.

A small bioluminescent shark so rare that there are only two specimens in the entire world has been discovered in the Gulf of Mexico.

We’re in a golden era for dinosaur science.

"A bit like dinosaurs on Earth — they were enormous and primitive. And they had short lives, living for just a quarter of a million years."

The most powerful space telescope ever built and the car-size roving science lab on Mars are among 25 of the most iconic inventions the magazine has covered in the past quarter century.

“[In] any piece of beautiful mathematics, you almost always find that there is a physical system which actually mirrors the mathematics.”