Asteroid near Earth detected hours after it passed the planet

The Paris-based European Space Agency says a near 10-foot-wide asteroid passed Earth 265 miles above Antarctica but was not ...
UC San Diego Today

Inside UC San Diego’s Out-of-This-World Impact

At Scripps Institution of Oceanography, geophysicist Vashan Wright analyzed data from NASA’s InSight lander, co-authoring a ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN

Architects of a New Kind of Molecular Structure Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Metal-organic frameworks can store huge amounts of gas in a tiny space—enabling advances that could help humans fight climate ...
Scientific American

2025 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Molecular Sponges That Purify Water, Store Energy and Clean Up the Environment

Three scientists, including one from the U.S., share the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing “metal-organic ...

Discovery of binary stars the first step in creating 'movie of the universe'

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...

Quantum fluctuations found hidden beneath classical optical signals in polaritons

When optical materials (molecules or solid-state semiconductors) are embedded in tiny photonic boxes, known as optical ...

U.S. scientist among trio awarded chemistry Nobel for developing new molecular architecture

Three scientists shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their work developing a new form of molecular architecture ...