"The risk of harm coming to anyone on Earth is low — approximately 1 in 4,200."

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., a British company best known for developing small satellites, will help build a large, privately funded space telescope.

A mysterious structure found beneath Japan's waters has left experts questioning its origins.

Deep-sea waters are warming due to heat waves and climate change, and it could spell trouble for the oceans' delicate chemical and biological balance. However, a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences demonstrates that the microbe …

Even when the idea of terraforming Mars was originally put forward, the idea was daunting. Changing the environment of an entire planet is not something to do easily. Over the following decades, plenty of scientists and engineers have looked at the problem, a…

What hardware hacker doesn’t have a soft spot for transparent cases? While they may have fallen out of mainstream favor, they have an undeniable appeal to anyone with an interest in electroni…

If the concept comes to life, scientists would have a field day exploring lightning with remarkable ease.

A study shows evidence of Neanderthal “fat factories” dating back as far as 125,000 years ago.

What if a 125-million-year-old scorpion had been hiding in China's fossil beds all along? Scientists just found something unexpected.

For the first time, meteorologists have glimpsed the tiny bursts of ultraviolet light emitted by trees during thunderstorms.

An incredible discovery has been made in a cave: footprints and handprints left by ancient humans, dating back 14,000 years.

As the 11-year cycle downshifts from solar maximum to solar minimum, the lights will begin to diminish, so the time to plan a trip is now.

Did you know that notable astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson has a theory that our universe could be a computer simulation?

A new study highlights the volcanic Rimae Bode region as a scientifically promising destination for China's first crewed moon landing mission, which the...

When mobile charge carriers, also known as itinerant electrons, interact with the strong exchange magnetic fields associated with the intrinsic angular momentum of localized electrons, this can give rise to the so-called Kondo effect. A Kondo insulator is a s…

In the heart of Borneo, one of the world’s rarest creatures, a living fossil, slinks silently through the shadows, virtually unknown to most.

We are used to seeing a strict order in nature, with apex predators at the top feeding on those lower down the pecking order. But in video footage from a nature reserve in Italy, we see a red fox turning the tables, attacking and likely killing one of two wol…

Every second, hundreds to thousands of molecules move through thousands of nuclear pores in each of your cells. A new high-definition view reveals the machine in action.

Proteins assume complex 3D shapes even faster than does DNA, which is a simpler molecule.