A rare butterfly-shaped crater spreads across Mars' northern plains.

For decades, helium has been produced with natural gas, generating huge carbon emissions. Now, geologists are looking for new helium sources — and finding enormous "carbon-free" reservoirs that could revolutionize the industry.

Hold the jokes—this is serious news.

Young sea urchins spread neuron-rich tissue across their bodies. A new atlas shows complex neural and light sensing networks.

The fossil called "Medusa" could be a dinosaur mummy—the remains of an Edmontosaurus about 66 million years old that researchers believe contains a significant amount of skin and tendon tissue.

Is this really a crater in the Saharan Desert?

China faces temporary emergency launch gap after space station lifeboat crisis China could be without emergency launch capability to Tiangong space station for months, leaving no rapid-response option for any new crisis following the Shenzhou-20 incident.

Working in academia can be stressful. Laurel Raffington suggests treating it as ‘just a job’ to reduce performance pressure and advocate for structural improvements.

Physicists have transformed a decades-old technique for simplifying quantum equations into a reusable, user-friendly "conversion table" that works on a laptop and returns results within hours.

Study: American kestrels are helping Michigan’s cherry orchards produce more — and safer — cherries. They’re among the wild predators helping farmers grow food.

In his book "One Hand Clapping," Nikolay Kukushkin explores explanations for how consciousness evolved, and ultimately, what makes us human.

"Some of our ancestors were very skilled observers."

The interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS was reobserved by the Hubble Space Telescope from a distance of 286 million kilometers on November 30…

NASA and CNES's SWOT satellite captured the first high-resolution, wide-swath image of a major tsunami in the open ocean after the July 2025 Kuril-Kamchatka quake. "Instead of a single neat crest racing across the basin, the image revealed a complicated, brai…

Alaknanda is said to have formed at a time when the universe was 1.5 billion years old. The universe is currently 13.8 billion years old.

As the lightest baryon in the Universe, the proton is thought by many to be eternally stable. But if it isn't, can we observe it decaying?

Research shows synthetic chromosomes can be transferred to human cells with potential to improve viral resistance

NASA said the discovery shows such "building blocks" of life are "widespread throughout the solar system."

If you want to stand out at your next metal gig, don't settle for a spot of color in a sea of black – go ultrablack instead.

Researchers studying Yellowstone’s depths discovered that small earthquakes can recharge underground microbial life.

This infrared view offers the clearest look yet at how dwarf galaxies merge, evolve, trade gas and ignite waves of new stars.

An increasing number of people experience fear, discomfort, or disgust toward nature—a phenomenon known as biophobia.

Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention of scientists. This planet orbits the star within the "Goldilocks zone"—a distance where water on its surface is theoretically possibl…

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy. Exactly what these dark components are remains a mystery, but they have a tremendous impact on our universe, with dark matter exerting…

DNA found in cave sediments is helping scientists unlock secrets of the Ice Age, offering unprecedented insights into ancient ecosystems and human history.