Astronomers have spotted a blue straggler orbiting a brown dwarf, the first known system of its kind ever seen. This ...

Look closer at the NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 1266, and you could mistake it for a spiral galaxy. There is a ...

The majority of dinosaur fossils found in Thailand are large, long-necked sauropods. Yet, in the Khok Kruat Formation, the youngest dinosaur-charged Mesozoic rock layer in Thailand, fossil remains are ...

Credit: NASA Exo-S Study Team The latest ultra-black coating combines extreme thinness with durability. It has an extremely ...

Quantum computing is racing ahead, with potentially huge implications for cryptography, materials science, chemistry, and AI. But today’s quantum processors are still too small to simulate all but the ...

The biggest black holes in the cosmos may not be the quiet offspring of collapsing stars, but the bruised veterans of cosmic ...

Fortunately, spintronics offers a potential solution: electrons are not just carriers but also small spinning tops!

This is the first time astronomers have shown that mini-Neptunes can form beyond a star’s ‘frost line’ (the minimum distance ...

This high-resolution photo of the planet Mercury probably resembles the rocky exoplanet LHS 3844 b. Results from JWST observations favour an airless rocky planet with a dark, basalt-like surface, ...

Large systems, such as cloud servers, use heuristics and suboptimal algorithms to handle challenging NP‑hard problems, such as traffic routing, virtual machine placement, and packet scheduling. These ...

You have probably had a guilty pleasure at some point. It’s when we enjoy something that most people view as bad. The charm of guilty pleasures is in this contradiction. They make us feel a bit ...

Plastics in the air don’t behave like greenhouse gases. Unlike greenhouse gases, which trap heat by holding infrared ...