The tiny scorpion Scorpiops krachan, described on March 6, 2024, has been discovered in Thailand; it has eight eyes and is nocturnal.

Deep in the darkness, tiny red specks of light have been driving astronomers to distraction. These mysterious

A mysterious sea creature just aced a test designed for human kids, showing brainpower that rivals chimps and crows. Scientists didn’t expect this kind of self-control from a predator with no spine or social life.

Advanced satellite and lidar mapping has uncovered signs that the Tintina fault in Canada's Yukon may be primed for a powerful earthquake.

Researchers propose that vesicles could form in Titan’s hydrocarbon lakes, hinting at a new pathway for life’s precursors. This expands the possibilities for where life might originate in the solar system. NASA scientists have found evidence that cell-like st…

A team of astronomers from Taiwan has uncovered compelling infrared evidence hinting at the existence of the long-hypothesised Planet 9, a massive, icy world lurking far beyond Pluto in the outermost reaches of our Solar System.

This particular supernova was unusual for several reasons.

Orion could launch as early as February 2026, but that is in the most optimistic of scenarios.

The remarkably stiff and durable teeth of a common mollusk species could offer invaluable insights for future technological advances, scientists say.

A strange light was observed in Iowa night skies Tuesday.

The idea suggests that a parallel universe that mirrors our own could explain the existence of dark matter, one of the universe's greatest mysteries.

Analytical chemists from Stellenbosch University (SU) have provided the first evidence of a rare class of phenolics, called flavoalkaloids, in cannabis leaves.

How can the behavior of elementary particles and the structure of the entire universe be described using the same mathematical concepts? This question is at the heart of recent work by the mathematicians Claudia Fevola from Inria Saclay and Anna-Laura Sattelb…

Looking inside the rock, scientists found a few surprises about Earth's ancient past.

The medieval-looking "helmet" is the latest addition to Mars' gallery of odd-shaped rocks.

Genomic, single-cell transcriptomic and epigenetic analyses show that chaetognaths, following extensive gene loss in the gnathiferan lineage, relied on newly evolved genes and lineage-specific tandem duplications, not caused by a whole-genome duplication even…

If a major earthquake occurs, researchers think it could cause severe shaking, landslides, and damage to infrastructure.

Design could help to probe the ‘ignorosphere’, a layer of ultra-thin air that has largely escaped exploration by balloons, aircraft and satellites.

Physicist Carlos Argüelles-Delgado gives us an introduction to this one-of-a-kind facility, one of the most successful neutrino detectors in the world.

An ancient Egyptian artifact, over 5,000 years old, is leaving scientists stunned—could it be the key to uncovering extraterrestrial technology?

The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our solar system because it is similar in size to Earth, rocky,

Hackaday has a long-running series on Mining and Refining, that tracks elements of interest on the human-made road from rocks to riches. What author Dan Maloney doesn’t address in that series…

The star, called DFK 52, is a member of a cluster of similar red supergiants, but it's losing mass at an extreme rate never seen before.

Following the recent release of journal impact factors, we round up the leading journals across 10 chemistry fields