The inferno that sent toxic smoke billowing toward the United States won't be the last. Officials are now battling both the ...

A chat with aged avatars of future selves can guide people paralyzed by tough decisions. The question is what information to ...

Scientists have identified four types of black holes, classified mostly by their masses. But these mysterious objects ...

Prior moon rock samples, including from Apollo, seem heavily influenced by one impact. The farside samples tweak the story.

But a new documentary series tells a different story: one about survivors. Pompeii: Out of Time, hosted by actor Tom ...

Killer whales might pulverize sunfish to break them into smaller bites for young orcas — or they might just find it ...

A new generation of therapies aims to intervene at a recently discovered gap between the disease’s molecular march and its ...

The object orbits a brown dwarf that orbits a star, and astronomers aren’t sure if it’s a planet, a moon — or something else ...

In 2021, local journalists reported that the University of Pennsylvania had been keeping human remains from the ...

Scientists documented humpback whales hunting together at the seafloor, coordinating their arrival to scoop up sand lances.

A new snake’s unique head anatomy suggests early snakes were even more diverse than thought. This one was a rare burrower.

In sci-fi, AI can navigate the unknowns and — ideally — keep human travelers safe. But it’s not intelligent enough to do that ...