A massive barred spiral galaxy from 11.1 billion years ago has been discovered, showing star-forming activity and gas ...

Whenever Yara Haridy, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago, shows off the fossils she works with, people are often ...

Earth’s tilt is what causes the seasons; in the summer, when our planet’s pole is tipped toward the sun, the days are longer, ...

MIT physicists have demonstrated a new form of magnetism that could one day be harnessed to build faster, denser, and less ...

Everything in nature has a geometric pattern—from the tiger's stripes and spirals in flowers to the unique fingerprints of ...

Astronomers have captured videos of the sun without the typical blur caused by turbulence in Earth's atmosphere ...

When a water-based polymer solution dries, the liquid surface splits in uneven, unpredictable ways—a phenomenon called ...