Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

We typically imagine echolocation as “seeing” with sound—experiencing auditory signals as a world of images like the ones our ...

AI could be used to comb through electronic health records and warn vulnerable people about dangerous heat waves ...

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of competing U.S.-European efforts ...

To celebrate Scientific American ’s 180th anniversary, we’re publishing a jigsaw every weekday to show off some of our most fascinating magazine covers over the years.

Links to the U.S.’s most comprehensive climate reports—the National Climate Assessments—disappeared from the Internet on ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

GLP-1 drugs currently being tested in China target complications associated with obesity such as heart disease, fatty liver ...

To achieve its ambitious plans for missions to the moon and beyond, Russia needs other spacefaring nations as partners. But ...

Audible sound can affect gene activity in mouse cells, boosting the attachment of muscle precursors to surrounding tissue and ...

In 2008 scientists reported that rocks in Canada were the world’s oldest. New data appear to confirm this contested claim ...

Microwave satellite data are key to capturing major changes in a hurricane’s strength, such as when a storm undergoes rapid ...