After a Falcon 9 rocket stage burned up in the atmosphere, vaporised lithium and other metals drifted over Europe. This ...

Did You Know: An unusual yet scientifically accurate fact about one of the world’s most beloved fruits is drawing curiosity: ...

A biomaterial that increases its strength when in contact with water could provide a biodegradable alternative to plastics ...

Separated by an ocean and more than a decade, innovative experiments with 31 tin isotopes having either a surplus or shortage ...

X-energy’s Xe-100 Gen IV reactor uses TRISO fuel and helium cooling to deliver meltdown-resistant, modular nuclear power.

Scientists have identified a rocky outer planet in a system where a gas giant was expected. The discovery challenges ...

In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples of the 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu to Earth. Upon examining them, scientists discovered that the asteroid – which existed when the Solar ...

This study explores a groundbreaking theoretical method to neutralize high-level radioactive waste using lead oxide (PbO) ...

A moon can sit next door to another and still feel like a different world. Around Jupiter, that contrast shows up fast.

We are used to heat flowing from hot objects to cool ones, and never the other way round, but now researchers have found it is possible to pull off this trick in the strange realm of quantum mechanics ...

The fourth planet in the system is a rocky world, while the second and third ones are gas planets.

Cassini mission data shows Saturn’s moon Enceladus generates Alfvén waves extending over 504,000 km, circulating energy and momentum through Saturn’s magnetosphere, according to Universe Today and ...