Genetic variants believed to cause blindness in nearly everyone who carries them actually lead to vision loss less than 30% ...

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating ...

Kākāpō ( Strigops habroptilus) are large, flightless, nocturnal parrots with mottled green and yellow plumage that only breed ...

Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a ...

Scientists say their Stomata In-Sight tool can observe plants "breathe," which could be used to bioengineer crops that ...

Because the moon has less gravity than Earth does, time passes slightly differently there. This effect was first predicted by ...

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

Engineers from MIT say that stacking circuit components on top of each other could be the answer to creating more ...

Little red dots were first observed by the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) shortly after the spacecraft began collecting ...

A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new ...

Worldwide, millions of people live in river deltas that are sinking faster than sea levels are rising, research suggests.

New satellite photos reveal that one of the world's largest and longest-lived icebergs, A23a, has developed vibrant blue ...