Dark matter may be made of pieces of giant, exotic objects — and astronomers think they know how to look for them
Searches for dark matter particles have come up empty so far, driving theorists to get more creative with their ideas....
Searches for dark matter particles have come up empty so far, driving theorists to get more creative with their ideas....
Rippling's CPO said he prefers to understaff than overstaff all his projects. Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Rippling's product chief Matt MacInnis says he deli...
Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI Five years ago, Tim Cannon, a cancer doctor in Virginia, saw that his colon cancer patients were getting younger and their cancer was more aggressive. He had just diagnosed t...
Jared Isaacman said the US will return to the moon under Trump's presidency. NASA/Bill Ingalls Billionaire CEO Jared Isaacman is the 15th administrator of NASA. Isaacman has led and flown on two Space...
New discoveries and fresh looks at familiar worlds show how far exoplanet science has come — and how much remains unknown....
Here are eight of the most spectacular astronomical discoveries of 2025....
Nature, Published online: 24 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03756-4 The team select some of their favourite stories from the past 12 months....
"I think every astronomer is going to find something of value here, as NASA's missions enable the world to answer fundamental questions about how the universe got its start, and how it changed to even...
2025 was another big year for black holes, and here's our pick of the top black hole stories from the last twelve months....
All the NASA engineers and scientists need is a star on top of the telescope in the cleanroom....
Akhil Nagori, Evann Sun, and Lucas Shengwen Yen at the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge. Society for Science Three California teenagers created text-to-speech smart glasses powered...
Researchers have developed a system that brings multiple objects at different distances into sharp focus. | Image: The Verge via Yingsi Qin, Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan, Matthew O’Toole | Carnegie Mello...
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Chinese researchers have proposed a simple yet powerful theory to explain one of physics’ oldest puzzles: why time only moves forward and why travelling to the past remains impossible. Physicist Cai Q...
Beneath the Mediterranean, physicists at the Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope Initiative built a cathedral of glass spheres that listens for cosmic whispers—and this year, it heard the most energeti...
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An online video has gone viral showing 93-year-old Dr. Marshall Lindheimer, who has dementia, hearing about his groundbreaking research to treat and diagnose the pregnancy condition of preeclampsia....
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There are billions of dollars in it for companies able to kickstart mining operations, even if such returns are still years away....