The discovery also sheds light on why some people are disturbed by low-frequency noise while others barely notice it. If the ...

Scientists have successfully measured the magnetic field of the Lighthouse pulsar’s nebula using NASA’s IXPE. Their measurements confirm the theory that high-energy particles escape along the galaxy’s ...

The ocean floor is constantly growing, forged by magmas and stretched by tectonic forces at mid-ocean ridges (MORs). Yet despite their importance, these submarine boundaries remain among the hardest ...

Exoplanet WD 1856 b, shown in this artist’s concept, is a gas giant that orbits its star at a distance 50 times closer than Earth orbits the Sun. Observations by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ...

This image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was taken on 18 January 2026 with the FORS2 instrument on ESO’s Very Large ...

Scientists reveal how one of the world's deadliest superbugs evolved.

A planet’s radio signal may begin as a sharp tone (left, white) but can be spread out by the star’s surroundings plasma winds into a wider, fainter signal (right, green). The study suggests we may be ...

Illustration of the giant planets TOI-791 b and TOI-791 c with host star TOI-791. These planets are roughly the size of Jupiter but a tiny fraction of its mass, meaning they have an extraordinarily ...

For more than ten years, a mysterious pink world has puzzled astronomers. Discovered in 2013, GJ504b, nicknamed the Pink Planet, orbits a Sun‑like star about 57 light‑years away. Despite its name, ...

MIT scientists have found that parts of the brain outside of traditional language processing regions also respond selectively to language, including parts of the medial cortex (shown in red). Credit: ...

The Soviet PFM-1, also known as the butterfly mine for its winged shape, was designed with chilling precision. Dropped from aircraft, it flutters to the ground like a maple seed, small enough to evade ...

When we think of liquids, we tend to envision water flowing through a pipe or honey running off a spoon. But viscosity, the resistance of a fluid to flow, varies widely: from almost frictionless air ...