Black hole science in 2025 did not advance in gentle increments. It lurched forward in giant steps, from record shattering ...

From vision-restoring implants to quantum-based diagnostics, Tami Freeman looks back at some of this year’s healthcare ...

A team of scientists sparked a heated debate over whether Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night depicts turbulence, a complex physical phenomenon.

A rare SWOT satellite pass captured a Pacific-wide tsunami in high resolution, revealing complex wave patterns that challenge ...

A shiny gray crystal called platinum-bismuth-two hides an electronic world unlike anything scientists have seen before.

A new type of lidar is allowing physicists to study cloud tops at a resolution 100 to 1,000 times higher than before.

When black holes collide, the impact radiates into space like the sound of a bell in the form of gravitational waves. But ...

Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars ...

Quantum communication saw major progress, including longer-distance demonstrations and systems that operate closer to ...

High-precision measurements from the KATRIN experiment strongly limit the existence of light sterile neutrinos and narrow the search for new physics. Neutrinos are extremely difficult to detect, yet ...

For decades, physicists taught that superconductivity and magnetism could not share the same space. One state should destroy ...

A new theory of "dark photons" attempted to explain a centuries-old experiment in a new way this year, in an effort to change ...