Latest articles by Ben Turner
The trio devised methods for creating the tiniest slices of light.
The next supercontinent, Pangea Ultima, is likely to get so hot so quickly that mammals cannot adapt, a new supercomputer simulation has forecast.
An invisible halo of misaligned dark matter could explain the warps at the Milky Way's edges.
Alexandru Lupsasca and Michael Johnson won the physics prize for their work on photon spheres — weird rings of light around black holes that may reveal a theory of quantum gravity.
Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its most fundamental properties.
The possible moonquake was detected by India's Chandrayaan-3 mission on its third day on the lunar surface.
A stunning bright-green fireball was captured by a phone camera in a playground in Turkey.
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will soon return to Earth. What's on board could reveal the extraterrestrial origins of life on Earth.
Superconductors that work at temperatures much higher than absolute zero have befuddled scientists since they were discovered. A new theory might be about to change that.
The stunning experiment, which reconstructs the properties of entangled photons from a 2D interference pattern, could be used to design faster quantum computers.
The transparent, chargeless quasiparticle could shed more light on the underlying mechanics of superconductivity
The discovery promises to spark a revolution in physics, but more results are needed to know for sure.
Scientists have puzzled over the origins of a gravity hole in the Indian Ocean for years. Now, researchers think the sunken floor of an extinct ocean could be the cause.
Climate "tipping points," such as the loss of the Amazon rainforest or the collapse of the Greenland ice sheet, could come within a human lifetime, scientists have said.
A new system that uses subatomic particles produced high in Earth's atmosphere could provide a view inside volcanoes and help locate people trapped beneath rubble.
Italy's Campi Flegrei is showing some troubling early warning signs, but scientists caution that its eruption is far from certain.
A new theory has radically revised Stephen Hawking's 1974 theory of black holes to predict that all objects with mass may eventually disappear.
Firing ultrasound signals into rodent brains puts them in a torpor-like state. Scientists are wondering if it could be used on humans.
Slippages in sediment beneath the Antarctic seabed could spawn gigantic tsunamis as oceans warm.
Intense solar storms may have delivered Earth its earliest building blocks of life, new research suggests.
The U.N. weather agency has warned that El Niño and human-caused climate change will likely push temperatures into "uncharted territory."
Astronomers detected one of the brightest and most energetic cosmic objects ever observed in the form of a star being torn to shreds by a supermassive black hole.
A blinding flash of light set off air raid alerts across Ukraine’s capital city. Officials at first thought it was a falling NASA satellite, but the space agency has said it isn’t.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating the April 20 launch of SpaceX’s Starship amid claims the launch smashed windows and rained ash on the habitats of endangered animals.
The James Webb Space Telescope detected what may be the oldest known black hole in the universe by deconstructing faint glimmers of light from close to the dawn of time.