Artist’s impression of a forming galaxy cluster in the early universe: radio jets from active galaxies are embedded in a hot ...

Coral reefs are often described as biodiversity hotspots, but this study reframes them as potent regulators of the ocean’s ...

Cremation is unusual in the archaeological record before the mid-Holocene, especially among hunter-gatherers. Pyres demand ...

Alex Marson of Gladstone and his collaborators at Stanford University developed a genomic mapping technique that helps close ...

It detects the faintest incoming signals between neurons, the release of glutamate, the brain’s most common neurotransmitter.

One such superkilonova candidate event, named AT2025ulz, was observed in 2025; LIGO and Virgo first spotted gravitational waves, while the Zwicky Transient Facility was the first to detect light from ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope spotted the glowing remains of two space rocks crashing together in a nearby planetary system, a rare cosmic event that looked like a planet at first but was actually the ...

A gold-to-brown swirling disc surrounds a black ellipse-shaped area that looks like a hole in space. On the right, two very bright white spots atop the disc are connected by an arch of shining lines.

Located about 39 light-years from Earth, the TRAPPIST system resembles a miniature version of our solar system: The star, an ultracool red dwarf, and all its planets would comfortably fit inside the ...

In a world where most mornings start with a hot cup of coffee or tea, scientists are examining whether these popular drinks have benefits beyond just waking us up. A new study from Flinders University ...

India’s Chandrayaan‑3 mission has revealed that the Moon’s south pole is much more electrically active than scientists expected. This region, once thought to be quiet and calm, actually has a lively ...