The scientist is Neil deGrasse Tyson, and in the United States he is probably the most recognised face of science alive today ...

A team of nuclear physicists has pulled off something that, until recently, existed only in theoretical models and the violent surfaces of collapsed stars: they recreated a thermonuclear reaction ...

What if we tell you that researchers have found something interstellar buried in the ice in Antarctica? One possibility is the plot of The Thing; the other is a mystery that has puzzled scientists for ...

Colliding galaxies can trigger rapid star formation but also cause gas to be expelled. Astronomers used the James Webb Space ...

Deep inside Earth, two massive hot rock structures have been quietly shaping the planet’s magnetic field for millions of years. Using ancient magnetic records and advanced simulations, scientists ...

Earth may have won a cosmic chemistry lottery. Researchers found that during the planet’s earliest formation, oxygen had to be in an extremely narrow “Goldilocks zone” for two life-essential elements, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. As NASA’s Artemis II journeyed into space earlier this month, one of the astronauts ...

Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner solar system, they consider it likely that 6–40% of this material must have ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...