The proposal is highly theoretical and likely will take at least several decades to realize, but if we’re hoping someday to visit a black hole, scientists need to start somewhere.

New research finds that “tit divorce” is less arbitrary than biologists thought, revealing a complex social side to these common European songbirds.

Physicists recorded the lowest-energy neutrino event yet, using signals from the particles’ antimatter counterpart produced in a nuclear reactor.

In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of modern quantum mechanics, a survey asked physicists for their takes on some hot questions in quantum theory.

Energy startup Marathon Fusion claims to have found a scalable way to turn mercury into gold, but they still have much to prove.

Plasma waves are a critical element to understanding the many mysteries of the gas giant’s turbulent, magnetically powerful atmosphere, the researchers say.

A new study suggests that certain brain activity patterns may be linked to feeling less groggy in the morning.

The explosion created a 250,000-mile-long, boiling trench of hot plasma and debris in the star’s outer atmosphere.

Sleeping on their left sides keeps the right side of cats' brains alert and ready to detect immediate threats, scientists say.

The powerful merger, designated GW231123, produced an extremely large black hole about 225 times the mass of our Sun.

Vaccine experts have developed an antibody that, when applied to the nose, intercepts allergens before they can trigger a reaction.

A new study on the structure of ice formed in space overturns a decades-long consensus in astronomy.

For the first time ever, researchers succeeded in keeping a qubit coherent for more than 1 millisecond.

And they named it Bille.