The human gut microbiome makes up half the cells of the human body, maybe more — a diverse ecosystem that plays a crucial ...

Stand on solid ground and it feels obvious that “down” points toward the center of the planet and “up” leads to the sky. Yet ...

The Circinus galaxy, a galaxy about 13 million light-years away, contains an active supermassive black hole that continues to ...

Those concerned that 3I/ATLAS' arrival to our solar system meant that some sort of alien invasion was imminent can breathe a ...

For centuries, the principle of symmetry has guided physicists towards more fundamental truths, but now a slew of shocking findings suggest a far stranger idea from quantum theory could be a deeper dr ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

Missions and Discoveries. Artemis II Mission: Astronauts to Orbit the Moon. Get ready, space fans! NASA’s Artemis II mission ...

Astronomers describe the discovery of the largest-known stream of super-heated gas in the universe ejecting from a nearby ...

Astronomers have uncovered the long-hidden cause behind Betelgeuse’s strange behavior: a small companion star carving a visible wake through the giant’s vast atmosphere. Using nearly eight years of ...

Hubble has revealed a strange cosmic object called Cloud-9, a dark matter–dominated cloud with no stars at all. Scientists ...

Doomsday, a fast-paced sci-fi comedy by Chicago playwright John Joseph Enright, will be presented in Los Angeles as part of ...

Scientists have spent six years building a sophisticated simulation system that creates "pixel-perfect" data that mimics what ...