Far beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, a tank of liquid xenon is quietly recording some of the faintest signals in the ...

A communication blackout temporarily silenced NASA's MAVEN orbiter, a crucial source of data on Mars' atmosphere. Engineers are working to recover the ...

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has detected a "high-energy neutrino emission from within the Milky Way," according to AAAS.

Physicists propose using large neutrino detectors to hunt light dark matter particles that evade traditional methods, ...

Misconceptions and misinformation only add to the everyday confusion about how pollution actually works—what the AQI measures ...

A conflict-driven reroute of international ships exposed how dramatically cleaner fuel reduces cloud formation.

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

Dust devils on Mars form when air near the warm surface heats up and rises through cooler surrounding air, causing nearby air ...

As three immigrants claim Nobel Prizes in science for the United States this year, experts warn that immigration crackdowns ...

“Our achievement may herald a new form of matter combining characteristics of solids and liquids in the same material,” ...

The ocean is saturated with microplastics. While we know the location of the great garbage patches, where plastic particles ...