Category: Science

In July 2025, a large, bright cosmic object visited from beyond our solar system. Only the third interstellar object ever discovered, the comet — named

Researchers in Japan have switched on “Shunkai,” a neutral atom quantum computer that scientists hope to scale into a 10,000-qubit behemoth by March 2031. Shunkai

Editor’s note: This article was updated at 06:31 EDT on Sept. 24 with news that Polo had intensified back to a Category 5 storm. A

For the first time, astronomers have detected radio signals coming directly from a planet outside our solar system, according to a new preprint study .

Earth’s continents are losing fresh water much faster than scientists thought, mostly because aquifer pumping in regions like northern India, southern Iran and parts of

As of Aug. 30, 2026, NASA’s Curiosity rover has officially seen the sun rise and set over Mars’ reddish horizon more than 5,000 times in

An image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of galaxy cluster MACS J0417 is part of repeated observations to monitor for the reappearance of supernova Athena

Two decades ago, scientists seemed on the verge of understanding biology in a new, quantum way. Life unfolds over an incomprehensible span of scales, from

Scientists engineered roses that made both a blue pigment and a colorless helper molecule that brought out its shade.

The steps were poorly preserved, but still hint at an ambling pace of 1.6 meters per second, roughly equivalent to a quick walking speed for

A Pacific cyclone dubbed Polo exploded from a tropical storm into a powerful Category 5 hurricane in less than 24 hours on Tuesday (Sept. 22)

Scientists may have settled a decades-long debate about bat evolution, including controversial questions about when bats began to communicate and fly, a landmark study shows.

Archaeologists excavating a Paris hospital’s courtyard, a stone’s throw from Notre-Dame, have discovered the first evidence of a Celtic fort that Julius Caesar tried to

We all know that washing our hands can keep us from spreading germs and getting sick. But a new Rutgers-New Brunswick study found that cool