Ever wondered why you won't find kangaroos outside Australia? It all started with massive climate change millions of years ago.

This process could help explain how the comets found at the outskirts of our own solar system formed.

Although there are a few hobbies that have low-cost entry points, amateur astronomy is not generally among them. A tabletop Dobsonian might cost a few hundred dollars, and that is just the entry po…

With the Webb telescope’s unprecedented sensitivity, scientists are learning more about dark matter’s influence on stars, galaxies, and even planets like Earth.

Scientists are narrowing the scope of cosmology models thanks to the high-res Dark Energy Camera.

Once thought extinct, researchers are trying to find out more about this tiny carnivore to aid its conservation.

The development of humans and other animals unfolds gradually over time, with cells taking on specific roles and functions via a process called cell fate determination. The fate of individual cells, or in other words, what type of cells they will become, is i…

Sometimes astronomers don't need giant telescopes to observe the wonders of the cosmos; they just need to look up at the night sky.

Quite an advantage in today’s world.

New research suggests making Mars green could be a real, testable goal, if we're ready to take the ethical leap.

This glowing ocean creature looks like it came from a sci-fi movie, but it's 100% real.

After its closest-approach to the Sun (perihelion) on October 29, 2025, the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was observed on November 16, 2025…

Hidden inside the human body, scientists have uncovered thousands of bizarre RNA loops unlike anything in biology. These microscopic structures don’t act like viruses or bacteria and could rewrite what we think life is.

A box full of viruses and bacteria has completed its return trip to the International Space Station, and the changes these 'bugs' experienced in their travels could help us Earthlings tackle drug-resistant infections.

One small step for bacteria.

Archaeologists found hundreds of burials in the Copper Age cemetery in Varna, Bulgaria, some of which were littered with gold artifacts.

Outer space begins just over 100 kilometers up, but what we can see extends for billions of light-years. Here's what all of it looks like.

Motionless atoms can trap liquid metal in a strange new state that shouldn’t exist.

Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the gloom.

Starfish (aka sea stars) are master climbers.

For the first time, physicists have generated and observed stable bright matter-wave solitons with attractive interactions within a grid of laser light.

Researchers have discovered how bacteria break through spaces barely larger than themselves, by wrapping their flagella around their bodies and moving forward. Using a microfluidic device that mimics insect gut channels, the team revealed a remarkable "flagel…

A team of researchers say that a puzzling, spire-shaped organism that lived 400 million year ago is like no type of creature ever found.

Iron-rich rocks at McGraths Flat preserve Miocene rainforest life in remarkable detail, reshaping ideas about how and where exceptional fossils form. Beneath agricultural land in the central tablelands of New South Wales sits one of Australia’s most remarkabl…