Designed to study the powerful outbursts, the Swift Observatory quickly contributed to a wide range of discoveries. Now, it's ...

Crystals hidden inside dinosaur eggs at a famous fossil site are giving scientists a chance to do something that’s long proven elusive: figure out how old the ancient nests really are. Finding these ...

Volcanoes have cast a shadow over climate and history. Cold spurts after eruptions may have spurred famine, disease, revolts ...

Everyday Earth clouds get their start with a bit of salt or dust. Not so the Red Planet's Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud, ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory is shedding new light on the faraway regions by Neptune and beyond, including possible solar ...

GPS tracking reveals fast east-west flights lead to a mismatch between birds' internal time and the sun’s position, skewing ...

Madagascan flying foxes aren’t as mighty as they were 150 years ago. The big bats have shrunk, possibly due to selective ...

Guidelines for designing coasters don’t reflect the latest science about what types of movement the brain can withstand.

Most comets would have hit Earth with too much speed and at too sharp an angle for life-giving molecules to survive impact, a ...

The first estimate of CTE prevalence across the NFL suggests 75 percent of players may suffer from the neurodegenerative ...

Beautiful ripples drew Víctor Ortega Jiménez to feeding flamingos. Unraveling their secret could inspire new ways to filter ...

Vincent van Gogh'spainted the iconic work in the summer of 1889. Now researchers claim to have pinned down which night the ...