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Some say that the Sun is a green-yellow color, but our human eyes see it as white, or yellow-to-red during sunset. What color is it really?

The question of why the Universe is the way it is is an ancient one, and none of the answers we have come up with are satisfying.

Migrating our planet to a safer orbit might be the only way to preserve Earth after all the ice melts.

No matter how beautiful, elegant, or compelling your idea is, if it disagrees with observation and experiment, it’s wrong.

If we were born trillions of years in the future, could we even figure out our cosmic history?

Too many companies fail to recognize that “the deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated” — but the solution is easy.

If you can model anything in the Universe with an equation, mathematics is how you get the solution(s). Physics must go a step further.

Flashy desalination technology is more costly and cumbersome than many other solutions.

It started with a bang, but won’t end with one. Instead, it will “rage against the dying of the light” like nothing you’ve ever imagined.

The corporate unicorn was yesterday — now we should consider the wisdom of black and white stripes.

Did fire change the development of the human brain?

Eat your beans.

Will you die when your body dies?

With two different black hole event horizons now directly imaged, we can see that they are, in fact, rings, not disks. But why?

Everything is made of matter, not antimatter, including black holes. If antimatter black holes existed, what would they do?

While Taoism can be paradoxical and abstract, it also offers daily life lessons.

Could life be widespread throughout the cosmos, in the subsurface oceans of ice-covered worlds? NASA’s Europa Clipper mission investigates.

Artificial intelligence is much more than image generation and smart-sounding chatbots; it’s also a Nobel-worthy endeavor rooted in physics!

National Geographic’s first James Webb Space Telescope book shows us the cosmos like never before.

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

As the first Friedmann equation celebrates its 99th anniversary, it remains the one equation to describe our entire universe.

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

“Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed,” advised Stoic philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius. He had a point.

Twin Health lets patients with diabetes see what’s happening inside their own body and can model each patient’s unique metabolism.

65 million years ago, an asteroid strike caused the 5th great mass extinction. Could we save Earth, today, from a similar event?

Are you unhappy with how various events in your life turned out? Perhaps, in a parallel Universe, things worked out very differently.

Unless you confront your theory with what’s actually out there in the Universe, you’re playing in the sandbox, not engaging in science.

Caption:“At this time in Mars’ history, we think CO2 is everywhere, in every nook and cranny, and water percolating through the rocks is full of CO2 too,” Joshua Murray says.

If you put very fine black powder powder in a confined space it explodes in a cloud of heat, gas and noise.

So far, gravitational waves have revealed stellar mass black holes and neutron stars, plus a cosmic background. So much more is coming.