A new study shows that the Bernardinelli-Bernstein Comet is much larger than previously thought — potentially the largest ever spotted.
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If you think you know how an astronomical nova works, buckle up. You’re in for a ride like you never expected.
From physics and alchemy to theology and eschatology, Isaac Newton’s research was rooted in a personal pursuit of the Divine.
Every star we can see, including our sun, was born in one of these violent clouds.
Frozen adversity set the stage for an explosion of diversity.
Are the stellar remnants in our cosmic backyard actually our parents and grandparents?
The National Ignition Facility just repeated, and improved upon, their earlier demonstration of nuclear fusion. Now, the true race begins.
Back during the hot Big Bang, it wasn’t just charged particles and photons that were created, but also neutrinos. Where are they now?
While we can see many solar storms coming, some are “stealthy.” A new study shows how to detect them.
Even though the brain is only 2% of our total body mass, it consumes up to 25% of our energy.
When the Universe was first born, the ingredients necessary for life were nowhere to be found. Only our “lucky stars” enabled our existence.
Mansa Musa, perhaps history’s richest man, claims he ascended the throne of Mali after his predecessor sailed west and never came back. Could he have made it to the New World?
Engagement with generative AI is a business essential — but all companies should be vigilant.
Most exoplanets have been found around single stars via the transit method. But binary star systems might contain even more of them.
Most electric car charging is done at night. A grid powered mostly by renewable energy might not be able to meet demand, but there is a solution.
Frontier, the ORNL supercomputer, used machine learning to perform 9.95 quintillion calculations per second.
Smoke taint from wildfires is gross, even to wine amateurs.
The first tests of optical communications far from Earth will take place aboard the asteroid-bound Psyche spacecraft
There are billions of potentially inhabited planets in the Milky Way alone. Here’s how NASA will at last discover and measure them.
China has reached a new record for nuclear fusion at 120 million degrees Celsius.
Watch the plasma slide down the prominence like a roller coaster! Our Sun, despite it’s outward appearance as a perfectly hot sphere, is anything but uniform. When take a closer look […]
There’s an entire Universe out there. So, with all that space, all those planets, and all those chances at life, why do we all live here?
There really might be extraterrestrials out there, attempting to make contact. Here’s how science, not fiction, is attempting to find them.
The search for worlds outside our solar system has just turned up a planet, TOI-2257 b, with a truly extreme orbit.
Great tidal ranges are relatively rare on a global scale — and can be very deadly to the unsuspecting foreshore walker.
Take a closer look before judging a book by its title.
Whenever someone waxes poetic about terraforming alien worlds, it’s worth taking a moment to consider the ethical implications of the proposal.
Nero’s reputation as one of the most malevolent emperors in Roman history might be partly slander.
Where did the “seed” magnetic field come from in the first place?