An astronomical redating of Vincent van Gogh's painting The Starry Night confirmed the artist used real stellar data in his ...

Climate change has erased two millennia of progress toward a new global ice age, potentially validating controversial claims ...

The United Nations has issued a warning about the potential misuse of neurotechnology, calling for limits on the rapidly ...

The United Nations has issued a warning about the potential misuse of neurotechnology, calling for limits on the rapidly ...

This week, scientists have proposed the first method for detecting “mirror life,” a hypothetical form of synthetic biology that could pose serious environmental and biosecurity risks if ever created.

Forcing a small piece of antimatter into a controlled quantum state may be essential to proving the Standard Model of ...

Scientists reconstruct a 164-foot lake tsunami and reveal how human activity may increase the danger to communities near ...

What would happen if an asteroid struck the Earth? We spoke with a NASA planetary scientist who is working to find out.

Some of the most important phenomena in the natural world remain unexplored, according to new research revealing a scientific ...

A new analysis of a mysterious skeleton discovered in a Westminster Abbey sarcophagus in the 1800s has identified two likely ...

A rare ring found in a sunken Egyptian palace depicts the Lighthouse of Alexandria and hints at who managed the ancient ...

This week, we examine an incident involving an unidentified object detected near Israel's northern border that triggered a ...