A huge coral colony stretching more than 1.5 kilometers (0.93 miles) along the outer reef of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands has ...

Primordial black holes are hypothetical objects that could have formed directly from dense clumps of matter in the very early ...

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is mostly concerned with where to look for technosignatures from another ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of astronomers identified 104 magnified stellar events in a galaxy known ...

Tropical ecosystems are famous for their teeming, exuberant diversity. In fact, the dramatic increase in biodiversity from ...

Want to fly to the moon and help build a permanent lunar base? NASA is accepting applications for a new astronaut class that ...

Armed with dozens of motion-sensing cameras, William Grooms spent this past summer documenting wildlife across Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico. It was his first field season collecting ...

Glaciers are often thought of as unyielding blocks of ice that slowly carve out the landscape as they move downhill by ...

An alternative model in which the universe is 26.7 billion years old and needs neither dark matter nor dark energy has held ...

Private retirement savings are an increasingly important topic in public debate. One popular idea is to phrase savings reminders in one of two ways: either you emphasize what someone stands to lose if ...

Medieval health and sanitation efforts involved deliberate interventions; however, some of these measures had the opposite ...

The Mediterranean Sea still holds species unknown to science. One of them is Copula lucentia, a tiny jellyfish measuring just ...