Microplastics—the tiny particles of plastic shed when litter breaks down—are everywhere, from the deep sea to Mount Everest, ...

A study has shown it has the highest recorded levels of microplastic contamination in the world. Prof Jamie Woodward from the ...

Simulated stellar explosions show that massive early stars could have created plentiful water for future stars and planets to ...

Light was long considered to be a wave, exhibiting the phenomenon of interference in which ripples like those in water waves ...

According to scientists from the University of Portsmouth, water first formed in the debris of supernova explosions 100 to ...

The cosmos is riddled with evidence that the universe began with an exotic, unfathomably rapid expansion, but scientists ...

Mars may have once hosted an ocean with waves that lapped against sandy beaches 3.6 billion years ago, according ...

NASA expects to soon launch a mission to create the most colorful 3D map of the entire sky yet. Known as SPHEREx, it will ...

Campen had not been surprised when the water samples they collected from around Albuquerque, where they lived, were full of ...

A groundbreaking discovery has emerged from the depths of the Mediterranean Sea: the KM3NeT detector has identified the most ...

This rare event offers a unique opportunity to explore the universe, including probing the fundamental properties of the ...

In the vast expanse of the cosmos, powerful cataclysmic events unleash streams of high-energy particles. Among them are neutrinos—ghostly subatomic particles that travel unimpeded through space, ...