Deep beneath Earth’s surface, hot mantle rock slowly rises, fueling massive volcanic activity, tearing continents apart, and ...

The south pole of the Sun, photographed by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager instrument aboard Solar Orbiter on 30 March 2022. © ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team The Sun’s poles are of particular ...

In a stunning peek into how planets are born, astronomers caught millimeter-sized dust grains clinging to the windy walls of ...

Thanks to ALMA’s powerful precision, scientists have now confirmed that comet C/2014 UN271 holds the title of the largest ...

A team at the Technical University of Munich has created a high-tech robotic tool designed to step in during critical moments, like when someone’s lung fails. The device is an advanced robot arm ...

Neutrinos are ghostly particles—no charge, barely any mass, and yet they flood the cosmos. Born in places like the Sun, ...

For decades, astronomers have looked to the distant future and braced for the inevitable: a fiery, universe-altering collision between the Milky Way and its cosmic neighbor, Andromeda.But new findings ...

After New Horizons’ Pluto flyby, UC Santa Cruz‘s Xi Zhang proposed in 2017 that Pluto’s atmosphere is dominated by haze particles, making it unlike any other in the solar system. He suggested that ...

Soft machines, made from flexible materials such as soft plastics, could be beneficial in fields like nuclear cleanup, medicine, and space exploration. However, their real-world use has been limited ...

Cannabis consumption among older adults in the U.S. is skyrocketing, reaching levels never seen before. According to a recent analysis led by researchers at the NYU School of Global Public Health, 7 ...

In a groundbreaking experiment, physicists at the University of Jyväskylä have detected the heaviest nucleus ever recorded to decay via proton emission—a rare phenomenon in nuclear physics. The ...

Lead author Aly Kombargi, PhD’25, who graduated this spring from MIT with a doctorate in mechanical engineering, said, “This work highlights aluminum’s potential as a clean energy source and offers a ...