Why does plastic turn brittle and paint fade when exposed to the sun for long periods? Scientists have long known that such ...

It is clear that solar geoengineering does nothing to address the causes of global warming, i.e. CO₂ emissions from the use ...

Most scientific advancements manifest in incremental improvements to existing knowledge. Yet occasionally, revolutionary insights have the power to challenge long-held assumptions and reshape entire ...

The story of a red giant star and a nearby black hole is less a tidy cosmic romance than a forensic case file, pieced ...

China has just crossed a threshold that many nuclear engineers have talked about for decades but no country had previously ...

Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr had an ongoing rivalry about the true nature of quantum mechanics, and came up with a thought ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

"Precision in these measurements is critical, as even subtle discrepancies could signal deviations from the model — ...

The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are ...

Astronomers have discovered that 3I/ATLAS is carrying methanol and other chemicals that were probably important in the origin ...

The Vatican is now completely powered by a farm that sports solar panels to help shade-tolerant crops thrive. This new ...