Can Earth really be destroyed, or is it tougher than we think? This video explores the science behind planetary destruction, from asteroids and nuclear weapons to black holes, and explains why Earth ...

In the heart of China’s Taklimakan Desert, a remote stretch of arid land in Xinjiang, an ultra-deep borehole is descending ...

The 2025 Antarctic ozone hole is the fifth-smallest recorded in more than two decades, NASA and NOAA officials say.

A series of studies sheds light on the origins and characteristics of intermediate-mass black holes. In the world of black holes, there are generally three size categories: stellar-mass black holes ...

A mysterious ring of light is thought to surround every black hole, and Alex Lupsasca wants to glimpse one for the first time. The tendril-thin halo, called a photon ring, has the power to reveal ...

Supersonic shock waves are cone-shaped disturbances that result from an object moving faster than the speed of sound. If you ...

If this new model of the universe is right, there were boson stars and cannibal stars hundreds of millions of years before ...

The highest energy neutrino ever detected from space may finally have an origin story. Mathematical analyses suggest that the ghost particle could’ve come from a theoretical object known as a ...