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Astronomers have uncovered a massive hidden planet and a rare "failed star" by combining ultra-precise space data with some of the sharpest ground-based images ever taken. Using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, the OASIS survey tracked subtle stellar ...

Superconductors promise loss-free electricity, but most only work at extreme cold. Hydrogen-rich materials changed that--yet their inner workings remained hidden because they only exist under enormous pressure. Now, researchers have directly measured ...

By studying tiny distortions in the shapes of distant galaxies, scientists mapped dark matter and dark energy across one of the largest sky surveys ever assembled. Their results back the standard picture of the universe and show that even archival .. ...

An instrument aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft captured rare ultraviolet observations of an interstellar comet while Earth-based telescopes were blinded by the Sun. The spacecraft's unique position provided an unprecedented look at the comet's ...

For years, scientists thought Saturn's moon Titan hid a global ocean beneath its frozen surface. A new look at Cassini data now suggests something very different: a thick, slushy interior with pockets of liquid water rather than an open sea. A subtle ...

Researchers have revealed that so-called "junk DNA" contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to Alzheimer's disease. By experimentally testing nearly 1,000 DNA switches in human astrocytes, scientists identified around 150 that ...

Cosmic "touchdown airbursts" -- explosions of comets or asteroids above Earth's surface -- may be far more common and destructive than previously thought, according to new research. Unlike crater-forming impacts, these events unleash extreme heat and ...

Gravitational waves from black holes may soon reveal where dark matter is hiding. A new model shows how dark matter surrounding massive black holes leaves detectable fingerprints in the waves recorded by future space observatories.

Astronomers have detected spacetime itself being dragged and twisted by a spinning black hole for the first time. The discovery, seen during a star's violent destruction, confirms a prediction made over 100 years ago and reveals new clues about how . ...

After a decade of painstaking measurements, scientists have delivered a major plot twist in particle physics: a long-hypothesized "mystery particle" likely doesn't exist. Using the MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab, researchers analyzed neutrinos ...