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For decades, scientists have wondered how the moon can have water.

It’s dry, airless, and lacks an atmosphere, so the presence of water on its surface is nothing short of a mystery.

Over the years, theories have pointed to icy comets,…

Buckle up, nerds: NASA is building the first quantum gravity sensor for space—a suitcase-sized instrument that could soon be measuring everything from subterranean water to hidden reserves of…

A groundbreaking scientific discovery has recently enthralled the physics community: researchers have suggested the existence of a new category of quantum particles, dubbed “paraparticles.” While it may sound like something out of a sci-fi…

Before entering Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden, visitors must walk over disinfecting mats to rid their shoes of bacteria or other pathogens. Next to the mats is a sign whose admonition seems at once both practical and religious: “Cleanse…

Dinosaur fossils often steal the spotlight, but sometimes, tracks and footprints can tell an even deeper story. Ancient ankylosaur tracks, recently discovered in Canada, have rewritten a chapter of dinosaur history.

These newly discovered tracks…

A secret population of hidden galaxies suffusing the universe in a soft glow of far-infrared light have been strongly suggested to exist, based on careful detective work into some of the most unique data to come from Europe’s Herschel Space…

What a show Earth just put on!

Over the past 24 hours, our planet has been reverberating from the impact of a powerful coronal mass ejection (CME) that struck Earth’s magnetic field on April 15 — and the resulting auroras were absolutely…

The Lyrid meteor shower has returned, and some lucky skywatchers are already catching glimpses of these bright meteors as they streak across the sky.

The Lyrids appear to radiate from the constellation Lyra, located near the bright star Vega in…

In a stunning breakthrough that challenges long-held assumptions in quantum physics, a team of researchers from the University of Innsbruck has managed to create a Schrödinger’s cat state at temperatures far warmer than previously thought…