Space agencies around the globe are coordinating missions to visit the asteroid Apophis during a close encounter with Earth ...

The extreme conditions of atomic bomb explosions create “uncontrolled microexperiments” that, in Hiroshima, forged a ...

Discovered by an amateur mathematician in 2022, this strange construct can tile an infinite surface without repeating. But ...

A private spacecraft launched to boost the decaying orbit of NASA’s Swift Observatory is now suffering from potentially ...

A newly discovered change in ribosomal RNA makes protein production more precise, potentially safeguarding these cephalopods’ ...

Many of these structures date to around C.E. 100–300, during the time of the Aquiry civilization, and may have been used for ...

Smell can bring back vivid childhood memories—the so-called “Proust’s madeleine” phenomenon—and neuroscientists now think ...

In searches for past and present Martian life, some scientists say we’ve been too cautious to see what’s right in front of us ...

If starry galaxies are like bright ships on a cosmic sea, then supermassive black holes are like their dark anchors. Weighing ...

New work explains how avocado trees coordinate a complex reproductive strategy, switching every day between male and female ...

Physicists, mathematicians and philosophers have been exploring the possibility of going forward to the future or back to the ...

The European continent is facing a dual reckoning this summer—extreme heat is killing thousands and draining its rivers, ...