Paleontologists have unearthed the fossils of two 160 million-year-old lamprey species, discovering the once small fish had already evolved into
Jupiter may be a roiling, uninhabitable ball of tempestuous gas, but that doesn’t mean it can’t give us the screaming
We like to say we know less about the ocean here on Earth than we do about the surface of
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured new views of a stunning nebula, revealing never-before-seen details. A nebula is
In the wake of the destructive Hurricane Otis, we find ourselves at a pivotal moment in the history of weather
In July of this year, an asteroid roughly 30 to 60 meters across passed Earth to within one-quarter of the
Fine dust suspended in the atmosphere may have played a significant role in the extinction of dinosaurs after all. It’s
As humanity eyes the strange frontiers beyond Earth’s borders, making its first tottering steps towards the stars, new questions about
Pick any object in the Universe, and it is probably spinning. Asteroids tumble end over end, planets and moons rotate
In data nearly 20 years old, scientists have finally confirmed the presence of infrared auroras, glowing in the northern regions
How did we get here? Not just we humans, scrabbling about on a pale blue dot, hurtling around a star,
In the two years between June 2014 and May 2016, world leaders came together and adopted the landmark Paris Agreement,
Most of us are very much devoted to our pets, but a new study shows a discrepancy between dog owners
A new study from researchers at the California Institute of Technology (CIT) suggests the Long Valley Caldera in eastern California
Certainly, lots of people believe in ghosts – a spirit left behind after someone who was alive has died. In
Diaper waste is a real problem, with an estimated 300,000 of them disposed of every single minute worldwide. Now, scientists
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has been confirmed in the Antarctic region after brown skuas on Bird Island, South Georgia,
Dutch-born Christiaan Huygens is probably one of the most famous physicists you’ve never heard of. His work in the late
Our Sun is a steady and everlasting companion. Reliable like a clock, its apparent passage across the sky allows us
‘Painting’ with fluorescent markers has long been a handy way to detect unique double-stranded structures in DNA. Once limited to
Humans are outliers for the way many of us, along with a handful of toothed whale species and Asian elephants,
Sliding care-free through the complete emptiness of space, light covers a constant 299,792,458 meters every second. No more, no less.
The kilonova explosion that resulted when two neutron stars slammed into each other a billion light-years away turned out to
Mars may have a hard, dusty shell, but its interior is layered like a jawbreaker – and surprisingly squishy. Two
The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has always been plagued by uncertainty. With only one habitable planet (Earth) and one
On July 19, 1952, Palomar Observatory was undertaking a photographic survey of the night sky. Part of the project was
After a journey of seven years and nearly 4 billion miles, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft landed gently in the Utah desert
This month has given us some truly breathtaking sky displays, and the weekend ahead holds another treat. On October 28,
NASA is in a bit of a pickle with its container of dirt from asteroid Bennu, delivered to Earth in
Climate change poses an “existential threat” to life on Earth, prominent scientists warned Tuesday, in an assessment on this year’s
A new analysis of thousands of sets of twins suggests that synesthesia shares genetic roots with autism. In particular, synesthesia
Sometimes, years of painstaking excavation work are required to uncover the artifacts of the past – and sometimes, as with
Certain types of bacteria can mutate to reproduce more quickly when exposed to microgravity, and that’s not great news for
An ancient river system that has not seen the light of day for at least 14 million years has been
A technique for squeezing light in the arms of LIGO’s interferometer has allowed its measurements to cross the quantum barrier.
With their whip-like tails, human sperm propel themselves through viscous fluids, seemingly in defiance of Newton’s third law of motion,
Jupiter is the second-largest object in the entire Solar System behind the Sun. Its greatest distance from Earth is just
The melting of West Antarctica’s ice shelves is likely to substantially accelerate in coming decades even if the world meets
An extreme drought in parts of the Amazon has led to a dramatic drop in river water levels, exposing dozens
As Homo sapiens migrated into Eurasia more than 70,000 years ago, much of the continent was already inhabited by Neanderthals,
If there’s a man in the Moon, as the old beliefs go, he’s a pretty venerable one. Earth’s lunar companion
Record concentrations of a helium isotope found inside 62-million-year-old Arctic rocks could be the most compelling evidence to date of
A recent study published in Nature Astronomy examines the discovery of what astronomers are dubbing “ultra- fast radio bursts“, a
Each year, humans worldwide eat over 100 billion bananas, most of which are a type called the Cavendish. But perhaps
The so-called “Devil Comet” is barreling past Earth and exploding on its way around the sun, but a researcher who
A collision between two neutron stars, tightly bound on a decaying orbit, appears to be a relatively rare event. In
Stoop-backed, heavy-browed, communicating in ape-like grunts, impressions of the Neanderthal as a simple-minded brute a few steps below modern humans
The Universe is flooded with billions of chemicals, each a tiny pinprick of potential. And we’ve only identified 1 percent
