"At first, we thought something was wrong with the camera."

Ghostly, invisible, and happening above every forest in a storm, scientists have finally filmed what trees have been hiding all along.

Workers digging at a construction site in China struck massive bones locked in 147-million-year-old rock.

The night sky is full of wonder. Here's what to look out for tonight.

"Observing 3I/ATLAS is like taking a fingerprint from another solar system."

Founder of XTX Markets and science enthusiast is spending tens of millions of dollars on project in Chile

We all have a concept of reality. We know what is “fact” and what isn’t. However, the truth of the matter is that the definition of “real” is a mere construc...

Planets drifting unmoored through interstellar space, with no star to call home, may still have moons that are warm enough to support life, a new study has found.

A long-running debate about the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea has finally been resolved. Scientists now confirm it formed when a roughly 160-meter asteroid struck the seabed about 43–46 million years ago. New seismic imaging and rare shocked minerals…

Lake Unter-See in Antarctica, sealed beneath thick ice, contains unusually high levels of dissolved oxygen and cone-shaped microbial reefs resembling some of Earth’s oldest fossils.

From the ISS, scientists are capturing rare lightning above storms that could impact radio, climate, and safety.

In a new paper (accessible here), I show that the recently inferred radius and interstellar number density of 3I/ATLAS-like objects, imply…

The discovery that bumblebee queens could shake it off and emerge unscathed after more than a week submerged in water stunned scientists back in 2024.

As the world experiences greater dry spells, it's critical to learn more about these resilient organisms.

The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to be off the table.

A colossal underwater waterfall between Iceland and Greenland dwarfs every waterfall on land and plays a hidden role in Earth’s climate system.

Researchers simulated nearly every molecule in a bacterial cell — and then watched the cell grow and reproduce.

Jupiter puts on the most powerful display of auroral lights in the entire solar system.

Retractions correct the scientific record, but they have stigma attached to them. Some in the research community want that to change.

3D photos of Mars' many craters.

When cats fall, they usually land on their feet. This uncanny ability to right themselves before hitting the ground has long puzzled scientists. Now, a team from Yamaguchi University in Japan has the answer, and it's all down to the thoracic spine being more …

David Cutler is in the spotlight for his work on a tasty-sounding mathematics problem. In January, the New York Times featured a research paper authored by Cutler and Neil Sloane, the founder of The On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. Titled "Cutting a…

A startup aims to deploy a huge mirror satellite that would reflect beams of sunlight onto the Earth, powering solar farms, it claims.

A newly discovered comet is rapidly brightening and could become visible from Earth — if it survives an extreme close encounter with the sun on April 4.