The 2026 Breakthrough Prize honored advances in dark matter, quantum physics, gene editing and nonlinear mathematics.

Around the world, budgets for fundamental research — studies that seek primarily to advance knowledge for its own sake, without an expectation of a return on investment — are coming under pressure to ...

The year 2025 was huge for science. Researchers around the world made discoveries that could change how we live, work, and understand the universe. Scientists found over 128 new moons around Saturn, ...

"The Story of Everything" documentary argues scientific discoveries about the universe, DNA and fine-tuning point to the ...

Identifying the underlying cause of extreme events such as floods, heavy downpours or tornados is immensely difficult and can take a concerted effort by scientists over several decades to arrive at ...

Northwestern University recently awarded more than $2 million to eight innovative projects, including ones with Northwestern Engineering researchers, through the Pat & Shirley Ryan Family Research ...

Atmospheric insights into alien worlds emerge as JWST studies filtered starlight passing through distant exoplanet atmospheres. Pixabay, Vilkasss The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) represents a ...

NASA is inviting the public to join 36 citizen science projects. Volunteers can help with discoveries from asteroids to Martian clouds. To join, email do-nasa-science-join@lists.nasa.gov with ...

Science has always walked a tightrope between wonder and terror. While discoveries often bring enlightenment and progress, some findings have left even the most ...