Infections can trigger pregnancy complications, and now, new miniature versions of the placenta are helping show why.

The Maud Rise polynya has been sporadically opening up in Antarctica's ice since at least the 1970s. Now climatologists finally know why.

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of the exoplanet WASP-43b reveal that the hot gas giant is tidally locked, meaning one side permanently faces its sun while the other always stares out into ...

A Roman-era shipwreck on the Spanish Mediterranean island of Mallorca was carrying a cargo of highly prized fish sauce when it sank around 1,700 years ago, a new study finds.

Flaring stars, black hole outbursts and gamma-rays are just some of the cosmic exotica that Einstein Probe will hunt for.

The Cave of Crystals in Chihuahua, Mexico, is buried almost 1,000 feet (300 meters) beneath Earth's surface and contains ...

Mercury is about to reach its "greatest elongation west" of the sun, meaning stargazers will have their best view of the ...

A new type of hybrid sodium-ion battery that offers both high capacity and rapid-charging capabilities could power mobile ...

Climate models can be a million lines of code long and can take months to run on supercomputers. A new algorithm has ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's possible detection of biological chemicals on the exoplanet K2-18b may just have been methane gas, a new study cautions. Planned follow-up observations could solve the ...

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