When most people think science fiction, they first think of outer space. It’s why names like Kubrick, Lucas, Cameron, and Scott will live on long after the men who made them famous are gone. For the ...

Deep Space Just Revealed a Mysterious Object Astronomers Can’t Explain ...

A long-debated platinum spike in Greenland ice is best explained by volcanic activity rather than a cosmic impact, reshaping ideas about what triggered the Younger Dryas cooling. An unusual platinum ...

Cosmic radio pulses repeating every few minutes or hours, known as long-period transients, have puzzled astronomers since their discovery in 2022. Our new study, published in Nature Astronomy today, ...

Our understanding of migraine is starting to shift, overturning ideas of what's a symptom and what's a trigger, and which part of the brain is key for developing effective treatments.

In one of its best episodes, "Take Me Out to the Holodeck," Star Trek: Deep Space Nine uses baseball as a way to explore the ...

Scientists descend nearly 11,000 meters into the Pacific to investigate reports of oxygen production without sunlight on the ...

Recent James Webb Space Telescope data confirms a decade-old theory that the universe's earliest supermassive black holes ...

More than 50 years after NASA's last human mission to the moon, four astronauts, three Americans and a Canadian, are set for ...

Scientists have shown that the building blocks of proteins can form naturally in deep space. This means the raw ingredients for life may exist long before planets are formed.

Scientists have launched a fresh effort to find out what could be producing oxygen at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

From galaxies to the Sun, new research explains how turbulent motion can produce large-scale magnetic fields that remain ...