This image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was taken on 18 January 2026 with the FORS2 instrument on ESO’s Very Large ...

Scientists reveal how one of the world's deadliest superbugs evolved.

The discovery also sheds light on why some people are disturbed by low-frequency noise while others barely notice it. If the ...

The ocean floor is constantly growing, forged by magmas and stretched by tectonic forces at mid-ocean ridges (MORs). Yet despite their importance, these submarine boundaries remain among the hardest ...

Bonding between a mother and her newborn is often seen as the cornerstone of early development. Yet for some women, it can be unexpectedly difficult. A new study from Japan reveals that ...

Scientists have successfully measured the magnetic field of the Lighthouse pulsar’s nebula using NASA’s IXPE. Their measurements confirm the theory that high-energy particles escape along the galaxy’s ...

For decades, physicists have been captivated by the Penrose process, a mind-bending mechanism in which particles near a spinning black hole can siphon off its rotational energy. In its more violent ...

Exoplanet WD 1856 b, shown in this artist’s concept, is a gas giant that orbits its star at a distance 50 times closer than Earth orbits the Sun. Observations by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ...

The Soviet PFM-1, also known as the butterfly mine for its winged shape, was designed with chilling precision. Dropped from aircraft, it flutters to the ground like a maple seed, small enough to evade ...

A planet’s radio signal may begin as a sharp tone (left, white) but can be spread out by the star’s surroundings plasma winds into a wider, fainter signal (right, green). The study suggests we may be ...

Artist's conception of the view from the surface of the habitable-zone super-Earth exoplanet GJ 3378b. The planet has a minimum mass just over twice that of Earth and orbits its star at a distance ...

Illustration of the giant planets TOI-791 b and TOI-791 c with host star TOI-791. These planets are roughly the size of Jupiter but a tiny fraction of its mass, meaning they have an extraordinarily ...