Neutrinos may be nearly invisible, but they play a starring role in the Universe. Long-standing anomalies had hinted at a ...

Distance records are an excellent proxy for the state of the art in astronomy. Finding extremely faraway galaxies is hard. In ...

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world's smallest fully programmable ...

Scientists have discovered a giant cosmic filament where galaxies spin in sync with the structure that holds them together.

The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away. It soon began breaking cosmology.

High-precision measurements from the KATRIN experiment strongly limit the existence of light sterile neutrinos and narrow the search for new physics. Neutrinos are extremely difficult to detect, yet ...

In recent years, astronomers have become increasingly interested in a theoretical particle known as the axion, which was ...

A small, icy moon of Saturn called Enceladus is one of the prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system ...

Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging all explanations.

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) and the University of Michigan have created the world's smallest autonomous and programmable robots. Each measuring about 200 micrometers wide – ...

Both boson stars and Q-balls, which live under the more general heading of exotic astrophysical dark objects (EADOs), are ...