The science fiction film Project Hail Mary brilliantly uses authentic science to underscore the human drama and narrative tension of the story. Based on the novel by Andy Weir, the story revolves ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover examines the latest developments in the “forever war” over whether string theory can describe the ...

Between May 2023 and January 2024, a global network of gravitational-wave detectors picked up 128 new cosmic signals, more ...

How does fine dust aggregate into building blocks that ultimately form entire planets like our Earth? A research team led by ...

This week, among a lot of other important findings, we learned that emperor cichlid fish have gaze sensitivity and dislike it ...

The Big Bang Theory sent Howard to space... but not really. See how they pulled off the scenes of him floating in zero ...

A novel theory suggests that the current expansion rate of the universe is not fixed, but was in fact quite different in the ...

Gamma-ray bursts are the universe’s ultimate flash in the pan. In a fraction of a second, they can violently release more ...

Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, ...

A new theoretical study suggests that gravitational waves may leave subtle signatures not in giant detectors, but in the ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...