Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to uncover two groundbreaking findings: strong evidence of a ...

Scientists say the findings help explain how life can exist in extreme environments using the chemical compound methane instead of sunlight.

Neutrino oscillation is weird, but it may be weird in a useful way, because it might allow physicists to probe certain fundamental symmetries in nature—and these in turn may illuminate the most ...

When Scientific American published its very first issue 180 years ago this month, our view of the cosmos was substantively different. Closer to home, astronomers were wildly guessing about how our ...

Terrier-Improved Malemute rocket launches from NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, on Aug. 12, 2025, with a UD student ...

The U.S. planetary science community is sounding the alarm about plans to discard a nuclear technology that has powered ...

Thirteen years after landing on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover is running smarter and more efficiently than ever. With new ...

Boy, how the world has changed over the past 10 years, but perhaps not as profoundly as our understanding of another, more ...

Watch Pop Mech ’s Jackie Appel reveal the story of how two men from New Jersey named Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson made one ...

This proof-of-concept device has been designed by a team at Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the solar system? The idea has been around since before the ...

It's wild to me that Beauty and the Beast was in theaters when scientists accepted the theory that a meteor killed the ...