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Mars' red color explained by surprising new researchNew research has revealed that Martian dust's red hue comes from reactions that occurred in wet — not dry — conditions, and it could have implications for the possibility of life on the planet.
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French scientists smash China's 'artificial sun' fusion record by 25%A new record for maintaining plasma burning inside a fusion reactor has been set in France, beating China's previous benchmark by 25%.
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NASA supercomputer reveals strange spiral structure at the edge of our solar systemThe mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it looks like. Now, new simulations may have given them a first glimpse.
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Scientists identify tipping point for Greenland's ice sheet — and it's not far offGreenland's ice sheet has been losing a staggering amount of ice at an accelerating rate. A tipping point could come by the turn of the next century, a new study warns.
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Humanoid 'Protoclone' robot twitches into action while hanging from ceiling in viral videoProtoclone, an eerily lifelike humanoid robot built for home use, has left social media users aghast. And it's likely to be the first of many.
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Scientists may have just discovered 300 of the rarest black holes in the universeHow black holes grow to monstrous scales is one of astronomy's prevailing enigmas. A new record-breaking dataset, which reveals 300 potential 'missing link black holes', could help to unravel it.
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'Plastics are there and seem to be getting worse': Viral study of microplastics in human brains shows worrisome trend, but has flawsA close-up shot of microplastics resting on a human finger.
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James Webb Space Telescope discovers mysterious flares near the Milky Way's monster black holeSagittarius A*, our galaxy's supermassive black hole, is constantly producing strange eruptions. Astronomers are using the James Webb Space Telescope to find out why.
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'Perhaps it's only a matter of time': Intelligent life may be much more likely than first thought, new model suggestsFor decades, scientists assumed that life on Earth emerged through a chain of highly improbable flukes. But a new theory suggests it may have instead arrived just in time.
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Euclid telescope spots rare 'Einstein ring' hiding near Earth — and an ancient, unnamed galaxy behind itEinstein predicted the existence of gravitationally-warped rings of light in 1915. Now, a new one has been discovered just a cosmic stone's throw from our own planet.
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Most energetic neutrino ever found on Earth detected at the bottom of the Mediterranean SeaPhysicists have detected the highest-energy 'ghost particle' ever felt on Earth, with nearly 100 times more energy than any neutrino previously detected.
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Stunning, rainbow-colored object spotted by James Webb telescope could be an alien solar system in the makingThe James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around it, astronomers hope to better understand how solar systems like our own take shape.
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Alaska's ice is melting in front of our eyes, staggering satellite shots showUnusual weather patterns and climate change have been driving stark changes in the northwestern state. Now, new satellite images show the extent of this transformation.
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Why is DeepSeek such a game-changer? Scientists explain how the AI models work and why they were so cheap to build.DeepSeek's V3 and R1 models took the world by storm this week. Here's why they're such a big deal.
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New wonder material designed by AI is as light as foam but as strong as steelThe new technique could produce materials for use in helicopters, airplanes and spacecraft.
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Alibaba claims its AI model trounces DeepSeek and OpenAI competitorsChinese cloud giant Alibaba says that its Qwen2.5-Max artificial intelligence model outperformed its rivals at OpenAI, Meta and DeepSeek.
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Asteroid Bennu contains the 'seeds of life,' OSIRIS-REx samples revealScientists have found all five nucleobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu.
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Chinese researchers just built an open-source rival to ChatGPT in 2 months. Silicon Valley is freaked out.DeepSeek-R1, a new reasoning model made by Chinese researchers, completes tasks with a comparable proficiency to OpenAI's o1 at a fraction of the cost.
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Mysterious 'ice balls' in space baffle astronomersAstronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.
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Potentially deadly 'chirping waves' detected in baffling location near Earth, and scientists are stumpedChorus waves are mysterious, chirping signals produced by spiraling plasma inside our planet's magnetic field. But a new detection suggests scientists may understand less about them than first thought.
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'Our model of cosmology might be broken': New study reveals the universe is expanding too fast for physics to explainAstronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New findings risk turning the tension into a crisis, scientists say.
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'Spooky' quantum entanglement discovered inside individual protons for 1st time everPhysicists have long-suspected that the building blocks of protons experienced quantum entanglement. Now, researchers have the first direct evidence — after using a trick to infer subatomic particles' entropy.
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Schrödinger's Cat breakthrough could usher in the 'Holy Grail' of quantum computing, making them error-proofErrors in quantum computers are an obstacle for their widespread use. But a team of scientists say that, by using an antimony atom and the Schrödinger's Cat thought experiment, they could have found a way to stop them.
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China plans to build enormous solar array in space — and it could collect more energy in a year than 'all the oil on Earth'China has announced plans to build a giant solar power space station, which will be lifted into orbit piece by piece using the nation's brand-new heavy lift rockets.
