The Euclid space telescope discovery could help researchers understand how black holes grew so massive so quickly in the ...

Atmospheric rivers bring heavy rain and floods, but if they don’t come around, it could mean drought. A new global map ...

Researchers exploring the origins of left-right dominance in the brain found no innately better motor skills on either side.

Two “superpuff” planets orbiting a sunlike star over 1,000 light-years from Earth are as big as Jupiter and as dense as ...

Proposed federal rules would rely on political appointees to decide how a lot of U.S. science gets done. History shows the ...

The Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s latest exhibit, “From These Lands,” connects visitors with America’s natural history ...

The gold standard of scientific review, peer review by researchers’ colleagues, is in crisis. AI might offer a solution but ...

The ambitious expedition aims to fill data gaps about the glacier-sea boundary to predict when the world might tip into a ...

There’s never been a good method to check for violations of the Outer Space Treaty’s prohibition of nuclear weapons in space.

Two studies of Neandertal remains suggest their newborns were about the same size as those of modern humans but developed ...

It’s not easy living the high life. Take it from the Andean leaf-eared mouse, Earth’s highest-dwelling mammal. To tolerate ...

Terrestrial planets experience landslides in spades, and so do some moons, asteroids and comets. But — until now — they’ve ...