From fish to Phish, Science Friday has had a big year. Our staff chose their favorite stories and projects from 2025.

Teresa Paneque learned in September that she was a top prize winner for the 2025 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications for her social media work, previous book ...

How David Stevenson, a guy with a hybrid car and a solar rooftop, helped take down a burgeoning US energy sector.

Stevenson stopped short of blaming wind companies for the spate of whale carcasses that had washed up on New Jersey and New York beaches just weeks prior. He agreed with the scientific evidence that ​ ...

From Florida's Kennedy Space Center to Space Center Houston, the best space museums in the U.S. get you up close to rockets, ...

A tightly orbiting planet in another star system is overturning long held ideas about what small, super heated worlds can ...

The Moon’s surface sometimes flickers with sudden flashes of light, brief glows and color changes that have puzzled ...

"Ultimately, this work may help scientists better predict the impact of space weather across the solar system on longer ...

The biotech startup is betting that owners of abandoned oil wells will use the tech to squeeze energy out of their wells.

Long before perovskite solar cells began smashing efficiency records and transforming the future of clean energy, their ...

Images captured by NASA's Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the sun in ...

More than a decade ago, Northwestern chemists and materials scientists reported in Nature the first solid-state solar cell based on a halide perovskite semiconductor — an advance that ultimately ...