The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a faint glow in the universe dating back to roughly 380,000 years after the Big Bang ...

Preview data from the recently completed NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile point to a wave of discoveries that may ...

A research team led by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) has found that heat-evolved algae maintain more ...

A collaborative research team led by Hiroyuki Imachi and Masaru K. Nobu of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and ...

Usually, people associate archaeological studies with bones, pottery and primitive tools, but archaeologists often find other ...

Common beliefs that people who commit crime are inherently bad and unlikely to change may make the public more accepting of ...

In July 2026, the U.S. House passed legislation to make daylight saving time (DST) permanent. But a new analysis of the ...

A cosmic explosion that announced itself with a modest flash of gamma rays went on to produce one of the brightest afterglows ...

Magnetic fields exist in many stars, including the sun. Yet they remain too poorly understood to be reliably included in ...

Flying foxes are the biggest bats in the world; they look like German shepherd puppies with 5-foot (1.5-meter) wingspans. But ...

Sixty-three light-years from Earth, in the small, faint constellation known as Pictor (which is Latin for "painter"), there ...

A tiny fossil discovered exactly a century ago has caused an enormous change in our understanding of when flying insects ...