A striking new image of the Whirlpool Galaxy is helping astronomers solve one of the biggest mysteries in star formation.

Our team — which includes archaeologists from Macquarie University, France's HiSoMA research unit, and the Polish Academy of ...

A newfound species of long-necked dinosaur from Thailand lived up to 120 million years ago, and it's the largest known of its ...

Newly spotted asteroid 2026 JH2, which could be up to 115 feet wide, will fly past Earth closer than some satellites on ...

El Niño is the warmer phase of the natural El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climate cycle, a periodic shift in the waters ...

In 2015, after decades of relative stability, Antarctica's sea ice suddenly began to disappear. Sea ice extent reached a record low in 2023, and scientists have now figured out what happened in that ...

Don Juan Pond is a mysterious lake in Antarctica that contains so much calcium chloride, it doesn't freeze in subzero ...

Samples of "trinitite" created during the world’s first nuclear bomb test in 1945 contain unique crystals never seen before.

Tired of pet hair clogging your air purifiers? You don't need to waste hours washing and vacuuming the filters anymore — the ...

A pill called ensitrelvir is the first drug shown to effectively reduce infection after exposure to SARS-CoV-2.

Three people have died and four more have fallen ill on a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, and hantaviruses are confirmed ...

Dozens of scientists have banded together to pen scathing research letters to the journal Science about the publication of a study claiming the 14,500-year-old Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile ...