The month’s sharpest science shots — selected by Nature ’s photo team.

A cataclysmic variable star isn’t technically a single object. Instead, it’s a compact binary system composed of a white ...

In a peer-reviewed paper published in 2022 in the journal Science Advances, researchers from the University of Aberdeen and ...

A former Pfizer scientist was subpoenaed Monday by House Republicans over allegations that there was a conspiracy among ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

Rubin Observatory begins 10-year sky survey to uncover dark matter, track asteroids, and build a detailed view of our ...

Our perception of time is more fragile than we think. Scientists have uncovered a powerful illusion where repeated exposure ...

On 28 November 1966, an American airplane flies over the Antarctic Peninsula just south of the southernmost tip of Chile. On ...

The Hurricane Hunter planes that fly into storms can also be used to generate three-dimensional storm images, but the ...

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

Astronaut Nichole Ayers recently witnessed a phenomenon known as a sprite from the International Space Station.

The images have been released during an debate over the extent of the damage from the U.S. airstrikes on the facility, which ...