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Da Vinci dreamed up a helicopter 400 years before they actually existed. Now, engineers have brought his design to life, but with a twist.

With JWST, Chandra, and gravitational lensing combined, evidence has emerged for the earliest black hole ever. And wow, is it a surprise!

Known as orphaned planets, rogue planets, or planets without parent stars, these “outliers” might be the most common planet of all.

There are many problems with relying on SAT and ACT scores for college admissions. But removing them entirely creates less opportunity.

Despite the Sun’s high core temperatures, particles can’t quite overcome their mutual electric repulsion. Good thing for quantum physics!

“When molecules misbehave, it can lead to great insight.”

Technique may enable speedy, on-demand design of softer, safer neural devices.

When the Universe was first born, the ingredients necessary for life were nowhere to be found. Only our “lucky stars” enabled our existence.

It’s no longer just VR vs. AR. There is an alphabet soup of metaverse acronyms, often used imprecisely. So, what do they all mean?

Yes, “the laws of physics break down” at singularities. But something really weird must have happened for black holes to not possess them.

Even with all the recent impacts we’ve seen, it might be more “foe” than “friend” to us.

In theory, the fabric of space could have been curved in any way imaginable. So why is the Universe flat when we measure it?

Is the Universe the same everywhere? Or are there truly ‘special places’ around? For practically all of human history, one assumption about our place in the Universe had long gone unchallenged: […]

If you said “with the Big Bang,” congratulations: that was our best answer as of ~1979. Here’s what we’ve learned in all the time since.

The Earth that exists today wasn’t formed simultaneously with the Sun and the other planets. In some ways, we’re quite a latecomer.

Back in the 1930s, Fritz Zwicky postulated the existence of dark matter. No one took it seriously until Vera Rubin’s work: 40 years later.

With advanced laser technology and an appropriate sail, we could accelerate objects to ~20% the speed of light. But would they survive?

Anxieties about being identified will be superseded by fears of being analyzed.

You don’t need to ride into the danger zone to take advantage of TOPGUN’s life and career lessons.

The research suggests that roughly 1 percent of galaxy clusters look atypical and can be easily misidentified.

In July of 2022, the first science images from JWST were unveiled. Two years later, it’s changed our view of the Universe.

Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose, famed for his work on black holes, claims we’ve seen evidence from a prior Universe. Only, we haven’t.

The giant impact theory suggests our Moon was formed from proto-Earth getting a Mars-sized strike. An exoplanet system shows it’s plausible.

Many planets will eventually be devoured by their parent star. For the first time, we caught a star in the act, eating its innermost planet!

Even before the Big Bang, energetic radiation was always present. When it comes to the physical Universe, the notion of “nothing” may truly be possible only in theory, not in […]

A century ago, electric cars were common. The fact that they were almost entirely replaced due to the internal combustion engine is a testament to the glacial pace of battery breakthroughs.

Our galaxy not only isn’t stationary, but different parts are accelerating at different rates. When we think about the Universe as a whole, the accelerations that objects experience from our […]

A Harvard astronomer went to the bottom of the ocean, claiming he recovered alien technology. But what does the science actually indicate?

Success can be measured in different ways. When it hinges entirely on our careers, we fall victim to a devastating addiction.

The best evidence for dark matter is astrophysical and indirect. Do new lensing observations point to ultra-light, wave-like dark matter?