A beaming patch of turquoise amidst the Southern Ocean's blue-grey waters that's baffled scientists ever since it was first spotted in satellite images in the early 2000s may have finally been deciphered by oceanographers.

The dwarf planet is cold now, but new research paints a picture of Ceres hosting a deep, long-lived energy source that may have maintained habitable

Custom Robotic Wildlife, Inc. stays a step ahead of illegal hunters by making decoys that move, give off heat and poop.

Ant eating is widely distributed across mammalian lineages.

The Bion-M No. 2 satellite lifted off atop a Soyuz rocket this afternoon (Aug. 20).

Would you leave Earth behind to travel to our nearest star system? Live Science readers reveal their thoughts about life among the stars.

The fireball lit up the skies over southern Japan on Aug. 19.

In an effort to save the Russian sturgeon, scientists accidentally created a fish hybrid while breeding the endangered species in captivity.

IN A NUTSHELL 🔭 Astronomers have identified a promising candidate for the elusive Planet Nine using archival satellite data. 🛰️ The discovery has sparked both excitement and skepticism within the scientific community. 🔍 Mike Brown, a leading astronomer, qu…

The United States space agency has pioneered planetary science technologies as the world's leader in climate research for more than 40 years, but that may be about to change.

Scientists link a magnitude 6.5 earthquake that shook Humboldt Bay, California, 71 years ago to the "locked" Cascadia Subduction Zone.

An international team of astronomers led by Matus Rybak (Leiden University, Netherlands) has proven, thanks to accidental double zoom, that millimeter radiation is generated close to the core of a supermassive black hole. Their findings have been accepted for…

A decade ago, Karen Lloyd discovered single-celled microbes living beneath the seafloor. Now she studies how they can survive in Earth’s crust, possibly for hundreds or thousands of years, and push life’s limits of time and energy.

Chinese astronomers have spotted a hidden supermassive black hole in the background of a peculiar gravitational wave event from a black hole merger, hinting that all three singularities were locked in a never-before-seen triple system.

A conversation with neuroscientist Erik Hoel about the future of consciousness research.

Humanity’s rapid CO2 emissions could be pushing us toward a mass extinction event, but how soon will the planet’s fragile balance collapse?

Science helps us imagine the vastness of space and time — and our small but meaningful place within it.

A conversation with Annaka Harris on shared perception, experimental science, and why our intuition about consciousness is wrong.

Using paleomagnetic samples collected along the shores of Lake Superior, a new study illuminates the movement of a billion-year-old paleocontinent as it crept south toward a tectonic collision.

For the first time, scientists have directly tracked the slow transformation of a dying star over more than a century—revealing it is heating up faster than any other typical star ever observed.

A team of scientists has revealed how a single quantum device can accurately measure the three fundamental units of electricity—the ampere (unit of electrical current), the volt (unit of electrical potential) and the ohm (unit of electrical resistance). This …

Analysis of 18 different carnivorous dinosaur species' skulls has revealed that not all chompers chewed the same.

This is part of a NASA-supported project hoping to fabricate "device-ready" wafers from space-grown crystals.

Where do interstellar objects come from? Scientists have revealed where Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov, and 3I/Atlas originated in space, and also their age. One of them is almost as old as Earth. Where are they headed?