French scientists on Tuesday announced that they had reached a "crucial milestone" in the long road towards nuclear fusion by managing to maintain raging-hot plasma for a record 22 minutes.
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists witnessed a brilliant light show at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.
New measurements of rocks gathered during the Apollo missions now show it solidified some 4.43 billion years ago. It turns out that's about the time Earth became a habitable world.
Ice loss from the world's glaciers has accelerated over the past decade, scientists said on Wednesday, warning that melting may be faster than previously expected in the coming years and drive sea levels higher.
A pod of 157 dolphins has become stranded on a remote beach in Tasmania, with dozens already dead and efforts underway to save the survivors.
Microsoft says it's made a major breakthrough in quantum computing capabilities with the Majorana 1, its first quantum chip.
Scientists have traced radioactive elements on the seafloor back to the cosmic explosions they might have come from – and potentially linked the event to evolutionary changes in viruses in a lake in Africa.
With much of the developed world hastening its transition to renewables, take a look at some renewable megaprojects around the globe.
The world’s largest planned renewable energy project would be bigger than entire countries, with onshore wind turbines potentially triple the size of current market leading machines, according to new documents.
Switzerland is leading the way in clean energy with a world-first project: the installation of removable solar panels on active railway tracks.
A new paper describes a success in making a brand-new enzyme with the potential to digest plastics.
University of Queensland researchers have for the first time introduced genetic material into plants via their roots, opening a potential pathway for rapid crop improvement.
Recent expanded analysis much more strongly suggests that Callisto hosts a subsurface ocean.
A team of researchers has found evidence of salt minerals in samples recovered from Ryugu during the initial phase of Japan's Hayabusa2 mission.
The planet, WASP-121b, is some 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis. The team has now probed deep inside Tylos's atmosphere and revealed distinct winds in separate layers, forming a map of the atmosphere's 3D structure.
