The universe’s latest mystifying denizens continue to flummox and divide astronomers. Almost as soon as NASA’s James Webb ...

Debate still swirls around the nature of “little red dots,” black holes glimpsed in the early universe by the James Webb ...

Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays may be made of nuclei heavier than iron, according to a May 2026 Penn State study in Physical ...

Samuel Kaski’s two-part research lab in ELLIS Institute Finland (Probabilistic Machine Learning, Aalto University) and the Centre for AI Fundamentals in University of Manchester, is searching for ...

Bornholm is a remote island in the heavily polluted Baltic Sea. Now the windswept "Danish paradise" finds itself at the ...

Most debates about textile waste start at the closet, or at the donation bin. But a closer look at a basic cotton T-shirt suggests the biggest losses may happen long before a shirt is worn, washed, ...

Two pairs of ‘rogue’ Jupiter-size, planet-like objects have been found in a large star-forming region in the Milky Way, a new ...

Galaxies, like so many other astronomical objects, are surprisingly difficult to define. Here’s a hand-wavy attempt: a galaxy is a collection of stars, gas, dust and dark matter all held together by ...

Discovered off the coast of Spain, the ship was evidently smuggling cannons and silver ingots.

Scientists used some of the most advanced plasma simulations ever created to uncover how the universe builds enormous magnetic fields out of turbulence. The discovery could reshape our understanding ...

Pinning down the most titanic of the large sauropod dinosaurs is not an easy task, since the odds were generally against the ...

The thinking around exoplanet habitability is mostly concerned with a planet's distance from its star. Too close, and any ...