In this article, scientists Stewart Edie and Torben Rick take you on a journey through the United States as nature sees it, ...

Could a quick, painless tear sample someday help doctors monitor changes in the brain before major symptoms appear?

Every so often, something from beyond our Solar System passes close enough for astronomers to study. Most of the time, these objects are faint, fast-moving, and difficult to understand before they ...

A team of scientists at Northwestern University has developed a new method to create carbon-negative materials using seawater, electricity, and carbon dioxide (CO₂). This new process not only locks ...

Many of us tend to ponder about the universe when looking at the night sky on a clear evening. We all know the type of questions that emerge during these occasions. Interestingly enough, even ...

You might not have thought so, but although the Moon doesn't have breathable air, it does possess a thin, almost imperceptible atmosphere known as an 'exosphere'. Scientists have been studying this ...

Staying cool during hot summer days usually means relying on energy-intensive air conditioners. However, new materials created using machine learning and artificial intelligence promise to change this ...

Imagine peering into the night sky with a powerful telescope and seeing galaxies scattered across the cosmic landscape. Some are so distant that their light has been travelling for over 13 billion ...

Recently we made an attempt to put incomprehensible astronomical distances into a human perspective. We started by looking at the vast distances within our solar system, moving on to distances within ...

Thinking of astronaut food we often imagine floating packets of pre-cooked meals. But as our aim for space missions becomes longer and humans plan to stay on the Moon or even Mars, having access to ...

Have you ever asked yourself why nearly all familiar planets have a round shape and not, say, the shape of a cylinder or a cube? Interesting fact: planets appear perfectly round to the eye, but in ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope a research team at Johns Hopkins University discovered that an exoplanet, notorious for its extreme weather, has a surprising feature—it smells like rotten eggs.