Neutrinos are ghostly particles—no charge, barely any mass, and yet they flood the cosmos. Born in places like the Sun, ...

Black holes don’t just sit quietly in the depths of space—they spin with immense energy, warping spacetime itself. But here’s where it gets even wilder: Some supermassive black holes at galaxy centers ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this image of Pluto's surface shrouded in atmospheric haze. (Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI) In the distant reaches of the Kuiper Belt, Pluto and its largest moon, ...

Illustration of photon-photon scattering in the laboratory. Two green petawatt lasers beams collide at the focus with a third red beam to polarise the quantum vacuum. This allows a fourth blue laser ...

Arsia Mons, an ancient Martian volcano, was captured before dawn on May 2, 2025, by NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter while the spacecraft was studying the Red Planet’s atmosphere, which appears here ...

Proton emission is a rare form of radioactive decay in which the nucleus emits a proton, taking a step toward stability. The radioactive decay of atomic nuclei has been a cornerstone of nuclear ...

For the first time in history, carbon dioxide concentrations have surpassed 430 parts per million (ppm) during their seasonal peak, according to scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

In a daring attempt to expand commercial lunar exploration, Japan’s space agency aimed to make history with an ambitious lunar mission, Mission 2 SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon. However, the mission ...

For decades, the emigration of skilled professionals from small and lower-income countries has raised concerns about brain drain—the loss of talent that could hinder economic and social progress.

Since 2011, vast blooms of pelagic Sargassum have been invading the tropical Atlantic, piling up on the shores of West Africa and the Caribbean, triggering health concerns and economic headaches for ...

Your skin is home to millions of microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi, and viruses, forming a unique and complex ecosystem that changes based on location. Some of these microbes, known as ...

A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration. Some of the gas came from a star that was pulled apart by the black hole, forming the long stream of hot gas on the right, feeding ...