When astronomers first observed comet 3I/ATLAS, they realized it was special. It is just the third confirmed interstellar object to pass through our Solar System, after the enigmatic ‘Oumuamua and the ...

But a new study from the University of Geneva suggests that the future of monitoring cognition and emotional well-being may be as simple as wearing a smartwatch or carrying a smar ...

Wrinkle structures are small ridges and pits in rock, often made by microbial mats. They’re best known from Precambrian and Cambrian strata, where they serve as important evidence of early life, and ...

Among the strangest branches of the dinosaur family tree are the alvarezsauroids, small, bird‑like theropods that lived from the Jurassic into the Cretaceous. They don’t fit the image of sharp‑toothed ...

NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Around 15 percent of near-Earth asteroids have small moons, which suggests binary systems are fairly common. Many of the larger asteroid pairs have likely formed ...

And in one of the most remote corners of the planet, beneath Antarctica, gravity is at its weakest. In a new study published ...

This insight may also help researchers better understand how other organs develop and could eventually inspire new medical ...

A new theoretical framework shows that tidal forces in inspiraling neutron star pairs can be described through oscillation modes, opening a new path to studying ultra-dense matter using gravitational ...

This map is part of ACES — the ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey — a project designed to understand how gas condenses into stars in ...

But new research shows the lungs don’t follow that rule. A study in Nature Communications reveals that certain lung cells are ...

Penn State researchers found that lightning-like discharges may occur inside materials such as glass and quartz, potentially ...

Most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local Group of galaxies (which includes the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy) must be ...