Time is not absolute, with gravity and velocity affecting how fast it passes, making clocks at different heights or near ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

Where is the impactor?” The question, raised during a planetary science lecture back in 2019, struck a chord with ...

Source: Marek Pavlik / Unsplash Microplastics have become an unavoidable part of our daily life, embedded in packaging and clothing, and found in our oceans, in the air we breathe, and in the water we ...

The human skeleton — our internal framework that includes bones and cartilage — evolved over millions of years. It comprises an axial skeleton, which consists of the skull and the spine, as well as an ...

It started with an innocent mistake. Texas entrepreneur Chris Bentley had founded a company to buy drilling rights for oil and gas. He realized that a batch of letters he’d sent to landowners, ...

A 2025 satellite photo shows a particularly complex section of the Yarlung Zangbo River as it twists its way through the Tibetan Plateau. This part of the "braided" waterway has experienced drastic ...

Psychology is rife with myths: you only use 10 per cent of your brain; you’re either left-brained or right-brained; your brain has a ‘learning style’. Culture is littered with ideas that would have ...

Baby boy Cassian is an internet sensation. He was born earlier this year in the United States weighing 5.8 kilograms (12.8 pounds). A big baby can also be defined as having a birth weight over the ...

The Princess of Wales touched a few nerves this week when she warned that smartphones and computer screens were creating "an epidemic of disconnection" within families. In an essay co-authored by a ...

Evan Fisher first fell in love with the changing colors of fall while looking at an old maple tree in the backyard of his childhood home in North Carolina. A decade later the meteorologist and ...