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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The planet has a minimum mass just over twice that of Earth and orbits its star at a distance that causes it to receive almost the same amount of starlight as Earth does. The planet joins a growing ...

The number of satellites in orbit around Earth has exploded from fewer than 8,000 satellites before 2019 to over 14,000 now. Many are from SpaceX’s own Starlink network, which a ...

Fluorescent microscopy of SpudCell - a synthetic cell assembled entirely from non-living chemical components - undergoing division. Credit: Kate Adamala, Adamala Lab For centuries, the question of ...

For nearly fifty years, scientists have known that malaria parasites slip into human red blood cells through a fleeting ring-shaped structure called the moving junction. The structure appears, does ...

The red cells are genetically engineered macrophages designed to selectively recognize, engulf and destroy breast cancer cells (blue), demonstrating a promising new cell-based immunotherapy approach.

The Soviet PFM-1, also known as the butterfly mine for its winged shape, was designed with chilling precision. Dropped from ...

For most of us, quantum physics feels like something that belongs in the invisible world of atoms and photons. It’s the science of the very small, where particles can be in two places at once, or ...