A record-setting pristine star provides a window into the dawn of stars and galaxies in the universe. This groundbreaking ...

Observations of the highly unusual—sometimes called “forbidden”—exoplanet TOI-5205 b taken by JWST suggest the giant planet’s ...

Meteor impacts may have helped spark life on Earth, creating hot, chemical-rich environments where the first living cells ...

The interiors of ice giant planets like Uranus and Neptune could be home to a previously unknown state of matter, according ...

(via Veritasium) The factory that makes the world's most volatile substance.

My first encounter with the importance of oil was in 1962. I had just watched an episode of the witty sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies that began with a catchy theme song: “Come and listen to my story ...

Some 30 years ago, the mathematician Peter Shor (opens a new tab) took a niche physics project — the dream of building a computer based on the counterintuitive rules of quantum mechanics — and shook ...

I have a love-hate relationship with TikTok, as I do social media in general. It is a great communication tool and allows scientists and science communicators to get their content out to a larger ...

Let us mourn the demise of the American penny. With each of the one-cent coins costing about three cents to make, it was “wasteful” to keep producing them, pronounced President Trump. US pennies won’t ...

Standing before a friendly crowd in March, Elon Musk laid out his plan for the future of his companies, and it was literally out of this world. Musk announced that his space-launch company, SpaceX, ...

The Artemis II astronauts have captured our blue planet’s brilliant beauty as they zoom ever closer to the moon. NASA released the crew’s first downlinked images Friday, 1 1/2 days into the first ...

Mikhail Blagosklonny was right to say out loud: the goal of geroscience is life extension. Not “vitality” or a polite euphemism for better late-life care, but life extension [1]. He also insisted on ...