As viewed by the MeerKAT telescope, this radio view of the Milky Way blows away every other way we’ve ever seen our home galaxy.
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IceCube scientists have detected high-energy tau neutrinos from deep space, suggesting that neutrino transformations occur not only in lab experiments but also over cosmic distances.
In our Solar System, even the two brightest planets frequently align in our skies. But only rarely is it spectacularly visible from Earth.
Total eclipses are a product of a strange and almost eerie cosmic coincidence — one that makes Earth an even rarer world in the galaxy and, by proxy, in the Universe.
Explore how the study of exoplanets is transforming our understanding of ocean formation.
There were many similarities, but also some profound differences.
Numerous videos online show that squid undergo a dramatic color-changing effect after being stunned or killed.
Alli Webb, co-founder of Drybar, has a message for up-and-coming leaders: Embrace the mess!
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has been a controversial diagnosis since it was first described, back in the 1940s.
The curiosity of children is a national resource. Adults destroy it.
From the tiniest subatomic scales to the grandest cosmic ones, solving any of these puzzles could unlock our understanding of the Universe.
The big question isn’t whether the Universe is expanding at 67 or 73 km/s/Mpc. It’s why different methods yield such different answers.
Police forces are choosing humans over algorithms to make some identifications.
Steam cars hit the U.S. market in the 1890s but were largely extinct by the 1930s. Will technology bring them back?
If you put very fine black powder powder in a confined space it explodes in a cloud of heat, gas and noise.
Instead of walking a mile in someone’s shoes, try reading a chapter in their book.
With a new telescope on the horizon, we reflect on the best pictures of space that came before.
A recent study overviews the thinnest X-ray detector ever created.
Quantum mechanics has taught us that even empty space contains energy. “Negative energy” is the state of having less energy than empty space.
Even without the greatest individual scientist of all, every one of his great scientific advances would still have occurred. Eventually.
In 1990, we only knew of the ones in our Solar System. Today, we know of thousands, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
With 1550 distinct type Ia supernovae measured across ~10 billion years of cosmic time, the Pantheon+ data set reveals our Universe.
Seventy-five years after the anomaly’s discovery, scientists have finally figured out why sea levels are so much lower here.
The DUNE project will beam tiny neutrinos across vast distances. But the first step involved moving a heavier material: 1 million tons of rock.
Enlightenment is a traditionally mystical and slippery concept, but when it is subjected to the rigors of empirical analysis, there is a lot to be learned about our brains and ourselves.
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If there’s life lurking on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, could our instruments even detect it?
Both journalists have put themselves in danger to shed light on corruption and abuses of power in their home countries.
Why the road to self-driving vehicles is paved with smarter “dumb” cars.
Quantum communication offers a surer path to sending an interstellar message, as well as receiving one. But can we do it?