This new map is not only the most detailed view of the universe’s invisible scaffolding to date, it also allows astronomers to look deeper into cosmic history.

In a recent study, researchers from China have developed a chip-scale LiDAR system that mimics the human eye's foveation by dynamically concentrating high-resolution sensing on regions of interest ...

A research team has successfully imaged a nova in high resolution—and the images suggest that the nova was not a single, impulsive explosion. A nova is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs in a ...

How is it possible for the ISS to stay in orbit? Learn more about the science behind orbiting Earth and more in this NASA "STEMonstrations" video. Credit: NASA Johnson Space Center Trump reaction to ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Hello and happy new year! I love the first few days of a new year. It evokes a feeling ...

Along with champagne and fireworks, nothing is more quintessential to New Year’s than abandoning one’s best efforts at self-improvement. Surveys have found that fewer than 10 percent of Americans who ...

Diagram of the electromagnetic spectrum, with visible spectrum and light highlighted separately. The full range of electromagnetic radiation, organized by frequency in Hertz and wavelength in meter.

Do you follow the maxim “new year, new me”? It's a tradition to reinvent yourself as we complete a wrap around the sun. But how people choose to reinvent themselves — and why and when they fail at it ...

We are approaching the end of the year, an opportunity to reflect on the progress you have made toward personal goals and set new ones for the upcoming year. According to a 2024 Pew Research survey, ...

Not content to just put out one twisty movie at the holiday season with Wake Up Dead Man, Netflix decided to open the floodgates – pun fully intended – with South Korean disaster movie The Great Flood ...

At the core of "Roadrunner I" is a newly developed MicroLED microdisplay panel whose pixel pitch has been reduced from 4μm in the "Hummingbird" series to 2.5μm. This substantial step in pixel scaling ...

The only major difference between the sun and the stars we see at night is that the sun happens to be close to us—which is advantageous, assuming you enjoy being alive. Astronomers enjoy this as well ...