The month’s sharpest science shots — selected by Nature ’s photo team.

A cataclysmic variable star isn’t technically a single object. Instead, it’s a compact binary system composed of a white ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

On 28 November 1966, an American airplane flies over the Antarctic Peninsula just south of the southernmost tip of Chile. On ...

Our perception of time is more fragile than we think. Scientists have uncovered a powerful illusion where repeated exposure ...

A former Pfizer scientist was subpoenaed Monday by House Republicans over allegations that there was a conspiracy among ...

Rubin Observatory begins 10-year sky survey to uncover dark matter, track asteroids, and build a detailed view of our ...

The exoplanet, a planet beyond our solar system, has been dubbed TWA 7b after NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...

Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the Vera C. Rubin ...

Citizen scientists using the Kilonova Seekers platform spotted a stellar flash 2,500 times brighter than before, allowing ...

The images have been released during an debate over the extent of the damage from the U.S. airstrikes on the facility, which ...