Ben Turner

A nuclear winter could reduce global calorie production by as much as 90%. But vast kelp farms could help save 1.2 billion lives until temperatures recover.

The new LISA gravitational wave detector, which will be launched into orbit in 2035, promises to detect cosmic collisions from the earliest moments after the Big Bang.

The discovery of an ancient lake bed beneath the Perseverance rover's location on Mars could mean the robotic scout has already scraped up microbial fossils. But we won't know for sure until we fetch the sample.

On Jan. 19, Japan's 'Moon Sniper' spacecraft made a successful soft landing on the moon. The landing was the most precise in lunar history; it was also upside-down.

The DragonFire laser can shoot down drones and costs less than $13 a shot, the UK government claims.

Microscopic water bears can enter a near-invincible 'tun' state when stressed, enabling them to survive in the harshest conditions — including the vacuum of space. Now we know how.

The sudden disappearance of quantum fluctuations inside an atom-thin 2D superconductor has left scientists baffled.

It's finally time to look inside the sample-return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. Scientists were locked out of the container for months due to a technical malfunction.

A newly discovered mystery object could be the heaviest neutron star ever seen, the smallest black hole, or something completely new to science.

A new, ultra-detailed map shows that 75% of U.S. states are at risk of damaging earthquakes, but some are at far more risk than others.

The new technique uses a machine learning tool to match prints from different digits belonging to the same person, but forensic scientists disagree on its utility.

The James Webb Space Telescope's discovery of the universe's oldest black holes is giving astronomers some vital clues for how they came to be.

The structure is so large, it defies one of the simplest rules of cosmology.

Two tight fasteners kept the majority of the Bennu asteroid sample from scientists since it returned to Earth in September. Now they've finally prised it open.

An oxidizer leak has left the lunar lander stranded in space carrying human remains

Just six hours into its maiden flight, Astrobotic Technology's Peregrine moon lander has experienced a technical fault that doomed the mission.

The tension, centered around a value for cosmic lumpiness known as S8, could join the Hubble tension in dethroning our best picture of how the universe evolved.

The first images from Euclid, planets, invisible rings, and the first hints of a neutron star’s wispy magnetic field. Here are the 8 space photos that melted our minds in 2023

For decades, measurements of the universe's expansion have suggested a disparity known as the Hubble tension, which threatens to break cosmology as we know it. Now, on the eve of its second anniversary, a new finding by the James Webb Space Telescope has only entrenched the mystery.

University of Chicago astronomer Wendy Freedman tells us how she's searching for an answer to the Hubble tension — a discrepancy between measurements of our universe's expansion that could threaten the dominant model of how the universe has grown since the Big Bang.

Batteries could charge up by relying on a quantum effect known as indefinite causal order, whereby the laws of cause and effect are scrambled and power can move through the system quicker.

At the current emissions level, there is a 50% chance that global warming will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius consistently in about seven years, new research suggests.

A weird phenomenon in which electricity flows like water was spotted in a nanowire made of "strange metal" — a bizarre metal phase that has stumped physicists for 40 years.

A sample from the asteroid Bennu, collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission, has arrived at London's Natural History Museum for analysis. Scientists are optimistic that it could contain the seeds of life.