A team of professional and amateur Japanese astronomers found evidence for a thin atmosphere around a small body in the outer ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made a surprising discovery about a galaxy long, long ago and far, far ...

Scientists at CU Boulder have discovered something that experienced ballroom dancers have long known: When dancers are in ...

It took the better part of a century for maternal mortality to be recognized, forgotten and finally recognized again as an ...

Residents of different countries don't age the same. This should be pretty obvious. Some countries are vastly more developed ...

When you're looking for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence, it helps to know what you're looking for and to go about it in the most efficient way. But work so far has generally not done so, writes ...

Roughly 540 million years ago, toward the start of the Cambrian Period, the planet was mostly ocean, and life was both alien and vaguely familiar. Small, phallic-looking worms rummaged through ...

From Albert Einstein, who spent the final years of his life on a quest for a unified theory he never found, to Vera Rubin, who uncovered compelling evidence for dark matter without ever knowing its ...

As Homer tells us, Odysseus made an epic journey, against the odds, from Troy to his home in Ithaca. He visited many lands, ...

The most massive land animals in the world all eat little stuff: grass and leaves. And almost all of the most massive aquatic ...

This is one of the most fascinating unsolved problems in cosmology, and it almost never gets talked about outside of research ...