The International Space Station is hosting a record number of eight spacecraft docked at all eight of its ports for the first time ever.

After decades of being forgotten, a 37-million-year-old fossil has finally revealed its secret: an unknown species of snake. But what makes this discovery so special?

Rocks have been found to hold many traces of Earth's ancient history, but usually geologists have to seek them out. Every once in a while, however, these imprints of times past are found by unsuspecting visitors. This occurred in 2019, when a group of free cl…

Modifications to Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station have already begun.

Rebecca I. Frambach of Willow Creek, a resident of Humboldt County, passed into God’s perfect memory on October 26, 2025, at the age of 56 years. She died very peacefully at Santa Rosa Providence Memorial Hospital, surrounded by two very dear couples, who…

Analysis of the second confirmed interstellar comet to visit our solar system suggests that the alien body could be covered in erupting icy, volcano-like structures called cryovolcanoes. Researchers also discovered that the comet has a metal-rich interior, wh…

States along the U.S.-Canadian border have a chance to see the northern lights on Wednesday.

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in school, where we learn about its use in the context of a circle. More recently, scientists have developed supercomputers that can estima…

New observations provide the most detailed evidence yet of atmospheric escape on a distant world.

Family alleges Northwestern’s actions during ‘China Initiative’ investigations linked to death of leading researcher.

Mars has never looked like this. After two decades in orbit, a European spacecraft just revealed the planet in colors you were never meant to see—exposing hidden scars, ancient secrets, and a landscape that rewrites everything we thought we knew about the Red…

Is it an insect? A strange fossil? An otherworldly eye, or even a walnut? No, it’s an intriguing kind of martian butterfly spotted by ESA’s Mars Express.

Nobel laureate David Baker’s latest foundation model can design proteins that interact to any biomolecule for broad biotech applications.

Prepare to have your mind blown.

A rare satellite view captured a major Pacific tsunami in unprecedented detail, revealing wave behaviors scientists did not expect. A satellite designed to track the height of the ocean’s surface proved its capabilities when a powerful earthquake struck off t…

The first humans arrived upon the landmass now known as Australia around 60,000 years ago along two distinct routes, according to a new genomics study.

In the darkest corners of the planet, where the light of the Sun never touches, eerie glows can yet be found, illuminating the shadows.

Sick young ants release a smell to tell worker ants to destroy them to protect the colony from infection, scientists said Tuesday, adding that queens do not seem to commit this act of self-sacrifice.

New research shows Earth’s core may have shaped huge deep-mantle structures that helped make the planet livable.

Coral reefs have shaped Earth in much deeper ways than we usually appreciate.

A new NASA Earth Observatory image reveals three ancient black mesas in Mauritania, remnants of the Paleozoic Era.

"A three-body problem is extremely complicated. Now we're dealing with four: the sun, Earth, the moon and Mars. The heavy lifting was more challenging than I initially thought."

The snakes stayed large and thrived even when cooling temperatures and shrinking habitats killed off other giant reptiles millions of years ago.

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti.

The brain doesn't just recognize the human voice. A study by the University of Geneva (UNIGE) shows that certain areas of our auditory cortex respond specifically to the vocalizations of chimpanzees, our closest cousins, both phylogenetically and acoustically.