The building blocks of rocky planets may have begun forming just 100 million years after the Big Bang—long before the first galaxies even existed—according to new research from the University of ...

The conditions for the formation of planets in the universe arose much earlier than previously thought. A new study from the University of Portsmouth in the UK has shown that this process could have ...

Radcliffe Wave origin identified in new preprint: Pulkovo Observatory astronomers Bobylev and Bajkova propose globular ...

These images show the evolution of supernova SN 2026gzf, which was first detected by the Einstein Probe on 21 March 2026.

In two separate papers published in Physical Review Letters, researchers investigated the nuclear reactions that take place ...

A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface ...

A quantum problem once described as impossible for classical computers has now been solved using relatively modest hardware. Researchers used tensor networks to compress the overwhelming wave function ...

Future Marines recite the oath of enlistment at Military Entrance Processing Station, Salt Lake City, Utah, on Oct. 24, 2022. (Cpl. Lydia Gordon/U.S. Marine Corps) Fearing that its new plans for the U ...

“This is the first evidence of three active black holes in a single galaxy in the distant universe,” Hannah Übler, an ...

In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN assistant editor Ananya Palivela about recent advances in quantum computing. Ananya and Craig talk about the results of ...

A licensed attorney with nearly a decade of experience in content production, Valerie Catalano knows how to help readers digest complicated information about the law in an approachable way. Her ...