An artist’s illustration depicts 2025 MN45—the fastest-rotating asteroid with a diameter over 500 meters that scientists have ...

Science in the United States has never been stronger by most measures. Over the past five years, the nation has won more scientific Nobel prizes than the rest of the world combined — in line with its ...

Killer viruses. Artificial intelligence. Extreme weather. Microplastics. Mental health. These are just a few of the pressing issues on which governments need science to inform their policies. But the ...

19. The largest known prime number contains 41,024,320 digits. 20. Frogs breathe and drink through their skin. 21. A bullet ...

New scientific findings come out every day. Often, people only learn about the researchers behind some of these discoveries years or decades later when they win a Nobel Prize. We think you should know ...

This week's science news saw us looking deep into the cosmos and the depths of our oceans. To understand the universe today, we need to look back at its earliest epoch, a period about 13 billion years ...

What this year’s Nobels can teach us about science and humanity. By Alan Burdick and Katrina Miller We are journalists on The Times’s Science desk. Technology observers have grown increasingly vocal ...

As an aerospace engineer, I’m excited for 2025, when space agencies worldwide are gearing up for even more ambitious goals. Here’s a look at the most exciting missions planned for the coming year, ...

World Science Festival Brisbane has announced that NASA astronaut Christina Koch will be attending the 2025 festival. Known for her groundbreaking achievements in space exploration, Koch is set to ...

I think any technical career starts with curiosity and imagination. When I was young, I read a lot of books on scientists and inventors and on various scientific topics, but what really got me ...