Spacecraft Captures the “Magnetic Avalanche” That Triggers Giant Solar Explosions
Much like a snow avalanche that starts with a small shift before cascading downhill, new observations show that solar flares…
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 Mission Returns, Splashes Down off California
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission safely splashed down early Thursday morning in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego,…
NASA Releases Global Temperature Data
Earth’s global surface temperature in 2025 was slightly warmer than 2023 – but within the margin of error the two…
Earth Has Been Feeding the Moon for Billions of Years
New findings suggest that Earth’s magnetic field has played a surprising role in transporting particles from our atmosphere to the…
Astronomers Just Watched a Black Hole Twist Spacetime
For the first time, scientists have watched a black hole twist spacetime itself—just as Einstein predicted a century ago. The…
Ghost Particles Slip Through Earth and Spark a Hidden Atomic Reaction
Neutrinos are among the most puzzling particles known to science and are often called ‘ghost particles’ because they so rarely…
Simple Light Trick Reveals Hidden Brain Pathways in Microscopic Detail
A simple new imaging trick reveals microscopic fiber networks that have been hidden in tissue slides for decades. Every tissue…
Dead Stars Aren’t So Dead After All: The Hidden Force Inflating White Dwarfs
Tidal forces supercharge tightly orbiting white dwarfs, reshaping their size, heat, and explosive cosmic futures. White dwarfs are the dense…
New Mars Images Reveal Hidden Traces of a Recent Ice Age
Frozen glacial scars across Mars expose dramatic climate cycles that once reshaped the planet. As we move from Mars’s equatorial…
Japanese Spacecraft Faces a Massive Challenge from a House-Size Asteroid
Astronomers have gathered new data on the asteroid 1998 KY26 using observatories across several continents, including the European Southern Observatory’s…
Light Has Been Hiding a Magnetic Secret for Nearly 200 Years
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have found that the magnetic component of light plays a direct part in…
Quantum Computers Just Simulated Physics Too Complex for Supercomputers
Scientists study matter under extreme conditions to uncover some of nature’s most fundamental behaviors. The Standard Model of particle physics…
NASA, SpaceX Launch US-European Satellite to Monitor Earth’s Oceans
About the size of a full-size pickup truck, a newly launched satellite by NASA and its partners will provide ocean…
NASA, Blue Origin Launch Two Spacecraft to Study Mars, Solar Wind
A pair of NASA spacecraft ultimately destined for Mars will study how its magnetic environment is impacted by the Sun.…
Space Dust Reveals How Fast the Arctic is Changing
Arctic sea ice has shrunk by more than 42% since 1979, when satellites first began providing consistent measurements. As the…
Astronomers Stunned by Three Earth-Sized Planets Orbiting Two Suns
Three Earth-sized planets found orbiting both stars in TOI-2267 are rewriting the rules of planet formation. An international group of…
Plastic-Eating Bacteria Discovered in the Ocean
Far beneath the ocean’s surface, researchers have found bacteria that can digest plastic, using specialized enzymes that evolved alongside humanity’s…
Scientists Shocked by Reversed Electric Field Around Earth
Earth’s magnetic shield hides a shocking twist: its electric charges are flipped from what scientists once believed. The area of…
Your Pumpkin Might be Hiding a Toxic Secret
Kobe University scientists uncovered why pumpkins, squash, and other gourds absorb dangerous soil pollutants into their edible parts. Pumpkins, squash,…
Breakthrough Optical Processor Lets AI Compute at the Speed of Light
A blazing-fast optical engine uses light to supercharge AI decision-making. Modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems, from robotic surgery to high-frequency…
Before T. Rex, There was the “Dragon Prince”
Khankhuuluu, the “dragon prince,” marks the evolutionary rise of Tyrannosaurs from agile mid-sized predators to dominant giants. An international team…
Scientists Just Found Hidden Life Thriving Beneath the Arctic Ice
The rapid loss of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is often seen as an environmental catastrophe. Yet researchers have…
Astronomers Detect a Cosmic “Heartbeat” in Pulsar Signals
Scientists may soon “hear” the universe’s hidden rhythm through pulsars beating with gravitational waves. Pulsars may be revealing that extremely…
The Moon’s South Pole Hides a 4-billion-Year-Old Secret
Scientists now believe a massive asteroid struck the Moon from the north, reshaping its surface and exposing hidden interior layers.…
Scientists Just Proved the Moai Could Walk, Solving a 500-Year Mystery
New study uses 3D modeling, field experiments to confirm how Rapa Nui villagers moved massive statues. For years, researchers have…
Scientists Accidentally Create a Tiny “Rainbow Chip” that Could Supercharge the Internet
A few years ago, researchers in Michal Lipson’s lab noticed something remarkable. They were working on a project to improve…
Astronomers Discover the Most Powerful and Distant Cosmic Ring Ever Seen
The most distant and most powerful ‘odd radio circle’ (ORC) known so far has been discovered by astronomers. These curious…
Scientists Just Found the Strongest Signs of Life on Mars Yet
Clues from Jezero Crater hint that Mars once nurtured microbial life, and the proof may be waiting in samples bound…
New Rocket Fuel Compound Packs 150% More Energy
University at Albany chemists have created a new high-energy compound that could revolutionize rocket fuel and make space flights more…
This New Camera Sees the Invisible in 3D Without Lenses
Researchers have used the centuries-old idea of pinhole imaging to create a high-performance mid-infrared imaging system without lenses. The new…
AI-Powered Smart Bandage Heals Wounds 25% Faster
As a wound heals, it goes through several stages: clotting to stop bleeding, immune system response, scabbing, and scarring. A…
NASA Selects All-American 2025 Class of Astronaut Candidates
NASA’s 10 new astronaut candidates were introduced Monday following a competitive selection process of more than 8,000 applicants from across…
Alien Water Worlds were Just a Mirage
An exoplanet orbiting a dwarf star 124 light-years from Earth made headlines around the world in April 2025. Researchers at…
Scientists Crack a 50-Year Solar Mystery with a Scorching Discovery
Solar flares just got hotter—and a half-century mystery may finally be solved. New research from the University of St Andrews…
NASA Says Mars Rover Discovered Potential Biosignature Last Year
A sample collected by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero Crater could preserve evidence of…
Launch Your Name Around the Moon in 2026 on NASA’s Artemis II Mission
NASA is inviting the public to join the agency’s Artemis II test flight as four astronauts venture around the Moon…
Scientists Finally Crack the Mystery of Rogue Waves
From Maritime Myth to Measured Reality On New Year’s Day 1995, a monstrous 80-foot wave in the North Sea slammed…
Scientists Stunned by the Universe’s First Known Black Hole
An international team of astronomers, led by The University of Texas at Austin’s Cosmic Frontier Center, has identified the most…
Scientists Discover Armored “Goblin Monster” in Prehistoric Utah
A newly discovered, raccoon-sized armored monstersaurian from the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Southern Utah, United States, reveals a surprising…
Astronomers Capture Breathtaking First Look at a Planet Being Born
An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of a new…
The Higgs Boson Just Revealed a New Secret at the Large Hadron Collider
The ATLAS Collaboration finds evidence of Higgs-boson decays to muons and improves sensitivity to Higgs-boson decays to a Z boson…
Astronomers Uncover Enormous Bubble Bigger than Our Solar System
Astronomers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a vast and expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a…
After 70 Years, the Sun’s Explosive Mystery is Finally Solved
New research led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has confirmed decades-old theoretical models about magnetic reconnection, the process that releases…
The Disappearing Planet Next Door has Astronomers Intrigued
Found using the MIRI instrument on NASA’s Webb telescope, which was managed by JPL through launch, the possible planet would…
Twice a Day, Mars May Briefly Host Water that Could Support Life
Frost-covered regions present the best candidates for the future habitability of Mars and further astrobiological exploration, research into brines shows.…
‘Bridge’ of stray stars reveals two massive galaxies tearing each other apart
Using one of the most detailed sets of observations ever of a galaxy cluster 700 million light-years from Earth, astronomers…
Hubble Just Exposed a Rare and Violent Star Collision
University of Warwick astronomers have uncovered compelling evidence that a nearby white dwarf is in fact the remnant of two…
NASA Selects Six Companies to Provide Orbital Transfer Vehicle Studies
NASA has selected six companies to produce studies focused on lower-cost ways to launch and deliver spacecraft of various sizes…
This Star Survived its Own Supernova and Shined Even Brighter
Rich with detail, the spiral galaxy NGC 1309 shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week. NGC…
Scientists Finally Solve the Mystery of what Triggers Lightning
Though scientists have long understood how lightning strikes, the precise atmospheric events that trigger it within thunderclouds remained a perplexing…