Researchers have captured the first real-world evidence of tiny electrical flashes glowing from treetops during thunderstorms ...

A meteor cluster reveals an asteroid disintegrating near the Sun. These observations help uncover hidden asteroids and ...

A mechanical engineer at the UK’s Lancaster University, Lucy Rogers turned an accidental PhD into a career spanning Robot ...

The institution boasts strong visitor numbers and an international scientific reputation. But its head warns of catastrophic ...

If you walk across the open yard in front of the Physics, Math and Astronomy building at the University of Texas at Austin, ...

A team of nuclear physicists has pulled off something that, until recently, existed only in theoretical models and the ...

A breakthrough experiment has shed new light on one of astrophysics’ biggest mysteries: the origin of rare proton-rich elements. For the first time, scientists directly measured a key reaction that ...

DENVER — Tiny, exploding black holes might explain one of the biggest mysteries about how the universe, in its current form, came to be. In the cosmos, matter is much more common than antimatter. But ...

2026 is a big year for SpaceX's Starship, the biggest and most ambitious rocket ever built. The third version of the still-in-development launch vehicle will debut soon (maybe), which will be the ...

Images of the space around the sun show the comet approaching the star intact—but only a shower of debris came the other side.

A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding: researchers could replicate the results of only half of the studies that they tested 1. The ...

Scientists can’t be everywhere all at once, as much as they’d like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are concerned with spreading the net wider – or getting more helping hands on ...