Germany's Isar Aerospace launched a rocket into orbit from Norway on Saturday as Europe races to boost its ability to ...

Acrid smoke hung heavily over the Malaysian town of Serian, seeping into homes and cloaking roadside stalls, as residents ...

In 1974, Stephen Hawking made a prediction that transformed our understanding of black holes. Black holes, he showed, are not ...

A study led by the University of Jyväskylä in Finland evaluated, for the first time, an ecological threshold for the amount ...

Astronomers have found two clouds of hydrogen near the Whirlpool galaxy that appear to contain almost no stars. The clouds, ...

A study on Roman law by the Carlos III University of Madrid analyzes the regulations and complex imperial logistics governing ...

Rice University researchers have used a magnetically levitated particle to search for ultraheavy dark matter, extending the ...

Lakes may look like picturesque stopping points along a river or stream, but they can have a big influence on what happens to ...

Has El Niño reached the West Coast? You might think it has. After all, the ocean off Southern and Central California is ...

UC Riverside scientists have developed a way to identify where Earth's biggest earthquakes are most likely to occur, offering ...

After an eight-year journey, a spacecraft carrying European and Japanese probes began the monthslong, high-risk approach to ...

Narwhals have nature's only straight tusk, a single tooth up to three meters (10 feet) long, so strange they were sold as ...