Jellyfish Nebula May Be Half of the First Known Binary Star System Where Both Stars Exploded as Supernovae
James Webb Space Telescope Reveals the Hidden Heart of Centaurus A, Exposing Millions of Stars and a Dynamic Supermassive Black Hole
Galaxy 1.8 Billion Light-Years Away Has Emitted an Unusually Bright Radio Jet for More Than Eight Years
Holoparasitic Plant Found to Replace Its Own Mitochondrial Genes With Functional DNA From Host Species
First Dinosaur Fossil Ever Found in Antarctica Officially Identified as a Titanosaur From 82 Million Years Ago
Museum Fossil Misidentified for Decades Turns Out to Be One of North America’s Earliest Saber-Toothed Cats and Reveals How Their Iconic Fangs First Evolved
Scientists Discover the Earliest Known Ancestor of Spider Fangs in a 518-Million-Year-Old Fossil, Revealing How Chelicerae First Evolved
Brain Size May Have Lagged Behind Body Growth in Human Evolution Before Surging Beyond Expectations, New Analysis Suggests
Repeated Brightening Reveals “Phoebe” Is an Ordinary Variable Star, Not the Long-Sought Lunar-Mass Primordial Black Hole
Giant Exoplanet GJ 436 b Appears to Leave a Magnetic Imprint on Its Host Star, Revealing a Two-Way Star–Planet Relationship
Nearby Exoplanet GJ 3378b May Be More Earth-Like Than Scientists Thought After New Measurements Cut Its Mass in Half and Strengthen Its Habitability Potential
Smarter City Design Could Improve Both Physical and Mental Health Across the US, Massive Study of 28,323 Neighborhoods Finds
Scientists Discover Giant Rotating Ocean Eddies Can Trap Congo River Freshwater and Carry It 200 Kilometers Into the Atlantic Instead of Letting It Slowly Spread
Human-Caused Ozone Depletion Helped Cool the Southern Ocean Between 1982 and 2005 by Strengthening Antarctic Winds, New Study Finds
Greenland Ice Melt Could Weaken a Critical Atlantic Ocean Current Far More Than Expected, but New Climate Model Finds No Abrupt Collapse Through 2300
Scientists Capture Electrons in Attoseconds and Discover a New Quantum Space-Time Limit That Reveals a 500-Attosecond Response Delay
NASA’s TESS Discovers Its First Microlensing Planet Revealing a Hidden Super-Jupiter and Suggesting Years of Archived Data May Contain More Undetected Worlds
Scientists Propose a New Way to Measure Black Hole Entropy That Could Transform How Physicists Study Merging and Evaporating Black Holes
NASA’s Stunning Hubble Image Reveals More Than 500,000 Stars in Ancient Globular Cluster M3, Offering Fresh Clues to the Milky Way’s History
Radio Signal From a Distant Galaxy Has Stayed Exceptionally Bright for More Than Eight Years, Revealing a Possible New Class of Black Hole Activity
Massive MRI Analysis of More Than 12,000 People Reveals Brain Structure Changes Linked to Depression That Differ by Age and Treatment Stage
Scientists Propose a Radical New Theory of Gravity That Could Explain the Universe’s Accelerating Expansion Without Dark Energy
Calcium Monohydride Molecules Cooled Below 1 Millikelvin in a 3D Laser Trap, Opening a New Path Toward Ultracold Hydrogen for Precision Physics
Milky Way’s Central Black Hole May Not Be Acting Alone—New Model Explains Every Strange Orbit of Its Young Stars in a Single Framework
Humans Have Been Aging Slowly for Up to 30 Million Years, Study Suggests—and the Secret May Lie Across the Primate Family Tree
Donor Stem Cell Transplants Kept Two Patients With Severe Neuromyelitis Optica Free of Relapses for More Than 15 Years Without Ongoing Treatment
Gut Bacteria Compound Found to Repair the Intestinal Barrier Could Lead to More Targeted Treatments for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Experimental Gel Helped Completely Paralyzed Pigs Walk Again After Fully Severed Spinal Cords by Reconnecting Damaged Nerve Fibers
Scientists Discover the Cerebellum May Help Keep Your Memory Sharp as You Age and Larger Cerebellums Are Linked to Better Thinking Skills
Ancient Roman Curse Tablet Hidden Beneath a Dutch Town Square for Nearly 2,000 Years Finally Decoded Revealing Rare Greek Text and Egyptian Magic
Ancient DNA Reveals That Power and Social Status Rather Than Family Determined Burials in a 2,000-Year-Old Xiongnu Cemetery
Scientists Discover a Hidden Antiviral Immune System in Sea Anemones That Works the Opposite Way From Humans Yet Still Stops Deadly Viruses
Swiss Glaciers Have Entered Permanent Ice Loss Earlier Than Summer Ends as Heat Waves, Saharan Dust, and Low Snowfall Accelerate Melting