Astronomers discovered a moon-like object orbiting a brown dwarf that's orbiting a star. Say that three times fast.

Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside Earth—hidden formations that have puzzled researchers for decades. New ...

These cosmic giants might one day propel our spacecraft, process unimaginable amounts of data, and even reveal advanced ...

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What makes for a successful evening in the Home Run Derby? It’s an incredibly difficult thing to prognosticate. That’s in part because it’s an annual exhibition of one single skill, with regularly ...

The company has drawn governments, a major chipmaker, and the Pentagon into an effort to control fragile photons and build a useful quantum machine. It aims to be the first.

Our readers enjoy getting to grips with this one, pondering everything from what this planet might look like to the various methods its inhabitants might use to reach space ...

Companies whose leadership treats every strategic choice as a moat decision will be the ones that create durable shareholder value through 2030 and beyond.

Nasa is about to launch a space observatory that could help settle some of the biggest mysteries in modern astronomy. The ...

The 20-year 511 keV map from the INTEGRAL gamma-ray space telescope. (Yoneda et al., A&A, 2025) There's something wrong with ...

The Earth is four and a half billion years old, so why they started appearing then is unknown, as is the mechanism to make that continental crust.” Johnson and his colleagues are now arguing that the ...

The Majorana 2 quantum chip embodies Microsoft's efforts to use a topological architecture to pursue fault-tolerant quantum computing.