The Himalayas' massive heights result from a unique combination of geologic factors. Mount Everest is the world's tallest ...

A pulsating red star and its spectacular nebula have been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. What it is: The variable ...

Rain has so far been ignored in calculations of the ocean's capacity to take up carbon, but a new estimate shows it enhances ...

What may be scariest about a spooky black cat is the way superstition and tradition shape people's perceptions and biases ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered lonely quasars in the early universe, with "empty larders" that defy theories ...

The mantle is split up into two domains — the African and the Pacific — that emerged when supercontinent Pangaea broke apart.

Researchers spotted a second distant star orbiting a well-known black hole and its stellar companion in a never-before-seen ...

A new analysis indicates the human remains found in a well in Norway are from a 1197 raid described in a royal history.

Troubleshooting the leaking ISS is ongoing, with NASA and Russia now identifying 50 "areas of concern" and four cracks, ...

A new proposal borrows from the principles of quantum mechanics and a technique called "wavelength multiplexing" to ...

Population assessments have revealed that polar bears in Greenland are suffering from crippling wounds on their paws due to ...

The largest and oldest-known impact site on the moon is the South Pole-Aitken basin. Thanks to new research, scientists have ...