A distant giant planet has been hiding clues in its clouds. Now, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed that its ...

For decades, weight loss has often been reduced to a simple formula: eat less and move more. But as many people know from ...

A snack here, a ready-meal there. Ultra-processed foods are woven into everyday life, often without much thought. However, new research suggests the question is not only whether these foods contain ...

Modern octopuses are known as escape artists of the sea, soft-bodied, elusive, and almost impossible to pin down. But a new fossil discovery is challenging that familiar image. Hidden inside ancient ...

For years, the standard advice on exercise has sounded simple: move more. But a large new study suggests that message may be missing something important. It may not be only how much you move that ...

For most of astronomy’s history, the death of a massive star has been a loud event. A supernova flares so brightly it can briefly outshine an entire galaxy. But a new study describes something far ...

The Ring Nebula is one of those sky objects people come back to again and again. It looks familiar, it photographs well, and it has been studied for generations. So when researchers pointed a new ...

Three faint smudges in James Webb’s data may be pointing to something astronomers have argued about for years: “dark stars.” The name sounds like science fiction, and it’s misleading. These objects ...

For nearly a century, astronomers have been convinced that most of the universe is made of something we can’t see. This invisible “stuff” seems to glue galaxies together and shape the cosmos, yet it ...

Thinking of astronaut food we often imagine floating packets of pre-cooked meals. But as our aim for space missions becomes longer and humans plan to stay on the Moon or even Mars, having access to ...

Imagine turning seawater into safe drinking water using only sunlight and a sponge-like material. Sounds simple, right? Researchers have now created exactly that, a new way to desalinate water that's ...

Staying cool during hot summer days usually means relying on energy-intensive air conditioners. However, new materials created using machine learning and artificial intelligence promise to change this ...