The bright points are radio-emitting galaxies and other compact sources, whose emission is much stronger than the faint ...

For over ten years, scientists have put forward two different explanations for one of the ocean’s more unusual trends: the increase in squid numbers between 1970 and 2010. A recent modeling study now ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered compelling evidence of massive black holes in the ...

In a breakthrough experiment, an international team of physicists used a quantum simulator for the first time to detect the ...

For decades, physicists have been interested in finding out what the Universe was like in its first millionth of a second; in ...

A team of researchers at MIT has now created a system‑on‑a‑chip called Gleanmer that lets small autonomous robots create ...

When a star drifts too close to a black hole, intense tidal forces can rip it apart in a tidal disruption event (TDE). The ...

On Aug. 5, a SpaceX Falcon 9 impacted the lunar surface and formed a crater. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) ...

Every year, millions of tons of sulfur quietly pile up as waste from petroleum refining. For decades, this yellow element has been treated as little more than an industrial by-product. But now, a team ...

Emails rule modern life—from friendly check-ins to serious business. But when you hit “send,” what makes someone actually write back? Scientists have long studied what helps a request succeed, like ...

Why black hole flares keep fading, scientists explain.

A Martian meteorite has unveiled something extraordinary: a previously unknown rock type containing garnet, the first time this mineral has ever been identified on Mars. This discovery is more than a ...