Category: Science

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is only the third to be

NASA’s Chandra Observatory has combined different wavelength images of the Andromeda galaxy to honor astronomer Vera Rubin, and then created a music video by converting

A type of lichen was able to survive extreme UV radiation in the lab, suggesting that ozone protection might not be required for life on

Compact ruddy galaxies seen by the James Webb telescope confound astronomers. Having very little spin at birth may explain the galaxies’ small sizes.

Footage captures a pair of orcas nibbling each other’s tongues in the Kvænangen fjords in northern Norway. Scientists think this rarely seen behavior could play

Surprising colors and stunning features are captured in a new image of Mars’ surface.

Researchers have successfully demonstrated quantum speedup in kernel-based machine learning.

Abruptly ending tax incentives that encourage solar developers to buy American could upend a booming manufacturing sector. (Image credit: Mike Stewart/AP)

Since 2004, scientific research has shown that a full night of sleep may lend itself to a burst of insight in the morning. But what

The object was likely either a meteor or space junk, with most sightings of the streak of light and fireball coming from Georgia and South

With genetic tweaks, E. coli turned 92 percent of broken-down plastic into acetaminophen, charting a path to upcycle plastic waste sustainably.

The Proba-3 spacecraft succeed at creating solar eclipses, kicking off a two-year mission to study the sun’s mysterious outer atmosphere, the corona.

The founders of the Microbiota Vault, a project that aims to preserve microbial diversity, have announced that they are ready to grow their frozen microbe

The discovery of Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, a dog-size “runner” dinosaur, has left researchers re-evaluating Nanosaurus and several other US dinosaurs from the Morrison Formation in Colorado.