A new study examines why eerie online worlds like the “Backrooms” have become so captivating. Millions of people are ...

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NASA's Lucy spacecraft revealed that a bizarre wobbling, peanut-shaped asteroid holds surprising clues about ancient water ...

A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...

Praearcturus gigas was a meter-long Devonian scorpion whose size may reflect a world with few large competitors rather than ...

In the book version of “Project Hail Mary,” author Andy Weir, known for grounding his fiction in plausible science, describes ...

A calf’s return to her herd showed how elephant family bonds, long-term research, and landscape protection are deeply ...

Credit: Gaorong Li and Xiaodong Wang New fossils hint that the roots of complex animal life stretch further back than ...

An artist’s impression of 3I/ATLAS is shown as it passes near the Sun, illuminating one side of the comet. On the side of the ...

Researchers propose turning a future NASA moon base into a quarantine station that would screen space samples before they ever reach Earth.

A new analysis detected hidden charcoal in black cave paintings at Font-de-Gaume, allowing scientists to accurately date the ...

Scientists have reported the first-ever live observations of the elusive goblin shark in its natural deep-sea habitat, ...