The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again spotted a distant exoplanet that I have exactly zero interest in ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...

SpaceX is planning a weekend rocket launch from Southern California just three days after the company's last mission. Will it be visible in Arizona? Dec. 5—Decatur students couldn't stop talking ...

This week's science news saw us looking deep into the cosmos and the depths of our oceans. To understand the universe today, we need to look back at its earliest epoch, a period about 13 billion years ...

Scientists have long known that light can sometimes appear to exit a material before entering it—an effect dismissed as an illusion caused by how waves are distorted by matter. Now, researchers at the ...

Recent college graduates are questioning the value of their computer science degrees because there aren't as many lucrative ...

Together, the N.I.H. and the N.S.F. had a nearly $60 billion annual budget for funding future breakthroughs in science and ...

Readers disagree with criticism of recent opinion pieces in The New York Times about the origins of Covid-19 and the public health response to it. In a recent science opinion piece, Gregg Gonsalves ...

A massive new sunspot complex, dubbed AR 4294-4296, has emerged on the sun and is facing directly at Earth. The dark patch is on par with the infamous sunspot that birthed the 1859 Carrington Event — ...