New study of Voyager 2 data shows Uranus experienced a solar wind event during the 1986 flyby, helping explain unusual magnetosphere readings ...

Harvard’s Avi Loeb warns that if 3I/ATLAS is technological, it could pose risks - and humanity has no response protocol ...

University of Iowa researchers have discovered a method to "purify" photons, an advance that could make optical quantum ...

In an update this week, NASA announced that it had lost signal of its MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) ...

The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in ...

New research by English archaeologists presents strong evidence for the earliest known use of fire by ancient humans.

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system ...

Teresa Paneque learned in September that she was a top prize winner for the 2025 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence ...

A decade-long investigation into puzzling neutrino behavior has now ruled out one of the most widely discussed explanations: the sterile neutrino.

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

A new study revisits ancient Chinese records to explore whether a comet could explain the Star of Bethlehem described in ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...