Imagine a lion with the nose of a dying star, a mane of space dust and a habitat 10,000 light-years away from Earth. On its infrared galactic safari, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. One quick heads up: This episode features some spoilers for Project Hail Mary. If there’s one thing that the many, many ...

The 2026 total solar eclipse is finally upon us. Today, for a few brief moments, some one billion people will experience partly or fully dark skies as the moon passes directly in front of our star, ...

Andy Green holds the overall land speed record, having hit 763.035 miles per hour while driving a jet-powered vehicle in 1997 ...

Mathematician Yang-Hui He explains why artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming mathematical work—and that's a ...

President Donald Trump and other Republican officials had criticized this chapter as biased against fossil fuel companies ...