On Saturn's moon Titan, vast dune fields are made not of sand but of frozen water and exotic organic chemicals—raising questions about how such alien landscapes form and evolve.
A century-old assumption about river behavior crumbles: meanders may have wound across barren Earth long before the first plant took root.
A frozen pinprick orbiting Saturn may be broadcasting signals of habitability to anyone listening—if we can learn to read them.
What astronomers missed in decades of Hubble data, an AI found in less than three days—and it's only just beginning to catalog what's out there.
The discovery rewrites when humans first took control of fire, challenging assumptions about the cognitive leap required to transform spark into flame.
The moment instant communication erased the Atlantic, and the global economy—along with human anxiety—rewired itself forever.
Researchers working with material returned by China's Chang'e-5 mission reported on 16 July 2025 that they had used concentrated light to release water from lunar soil and feed it directly into reactions producing oxygen, hydrogen and carbon monoxide.
On 30 July 2025, a team from the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering (IDSSE) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences published a paper in Nature reporting…
The CMS experiment at CERN has reported the first direct observation of a diffusion wake in quark-gluon plasma using dijet events, the short-lived fluid created when lead nuclei collide inside the Large Hadron Collider.
The blast threw a thirteen-pound tamping iron through his cheek and out the top of his head. Within an hour he walked up a flight of stairs. What the famous part of the story gets wrong is what happened next.
The Apollo 13 distance record was never meant to be a monument. It was a byproduct of a rescue.
The strangest thing about our solar system may be what it is missing. Line up the planets by size and there is a clean jump.
Your head does not leak most of your body heat. It gives off only about a tenth, which is roughly the share of your skin that it covers.
Astronomers have detected helium escaping from LHS 1140 b, a rocky super-Earth orbiting within the habitable zone of a small red star about 48 light-years away.
A 2025 MIT-led study estimates that current AI tools overlap with skills representing 11.7 per cent of the United States wage bill, or roughly $1.2 trillion a year.
On the night of 9 October 1946, observers across parts of Europe and North America watched the sky above the constellation Draco erupt.
