With CO2 emissions continuing unabated, an increasing number of policymakers, scientists and environmentalists are ...

Space debris is a growing threat to satellites and missions, with over 14,000 pieces already cluttering low-Earth orbit. To ...

The pervasive spread of misinformation can be tracked to cognitive limitations, social influence and the global spread of ...

A whopping 11,000 pounds of supplies and scientific instruments that were headed to the International Space Station are way ...

A September solar eclipse will briefly alter daylight across parts of Earth. Learn the science behind it and where observers ...

A photo shows the "light yellowish brown" coloring of the new species and its "many obvious speckles." Its eyes have a yellow ...

Graphene is stronger than steel and a better conductor that copper, making the two-dimensional material of particular ...

Around 2 million years ago, prehistoric humans in East Africa turned the tables on the carnivores that had previously ...

An international team of scientists spent three months at sea drilling into a huge, mysterious reservoir of freshwater under ...

Space scientists are puzzled after discovering a black hole behaving in an unexpected way. New images have revealed the ...

The feasibility of moon mining is not yet proven, but the future of supercomputing may depend on the ability to extract ...

Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may make all the difference.

Blue Origin is committed to making a permanent human presence in space a reality. To this end, they have developed the New Shepard and New Glenn rockets to send payloads to orbit, and aim to create ...

A rare glimpse into the wintry conditions of the Mars north polar vortex has shown that temperatures inside the vortex are far colder than outside, and that the permanent darkness that winter brings ...

Ursus minimus—presumed to be the common ancestor of most modern bear species—lived in Europe between approximately 4.9 million and 1.8 million years ago, during the Pliocene epoch and possibly into ...

Astronomers have seen something they did not expect: an Einstein Cross with not just the standard four images, there was an extra one. This unprecedented present might allow astronomers to better ...