It looks like NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has come to a bureaucratic end.

A new analysis of the eyes of some of the longest-lived animals on Earth could provide molecular clues about long-lasting vision.

Ancient granite boulders reveal a vast hidden structure beneath Pine Island Glacier, reshaping understanding of Antarctic ice flow. Pink granite boulders scattered across the dark volcanic peaks of the Hudson Mountains in West Antarctica have pointed scientis…

NASA planetary science division director Louise Prockter conceded that the agency is "very unlikely" to recover its MAVEN Mars orbiter.

Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, was walking through the Dadès Valley in the Central High Atlas Mountains of Morocco when she saw something that literally stopped her in her tracks.

Everything about the Infinity galaxy is unusual. It looks very strange and it has a supermassive black hole pulling a lot of material in.

Scientists are just beginning to understand the signals that determine the length of dogs’ ears.

"It points to a slow starvation rather than a single dramatic death blow."

The Politecnico di Milano has created the first integrated and fully tunable device based on spin waves, opening up new possibilities for the telecommunications of the future, far beyond current 5G and 6G standards. The study, published in the journal Advance…

During spring, when queen bumblebees first emerge from hibernation to start their nests, they work incredibly hard foraging for nectar to fuel their new colonies. But then, as soon as their first workers are born, they seem to slack off.

For 21 years, between 1999 and 2020, millions of people worldwide loaned UC Berkeley scientists their computers to search for signs of advanced civilizations in our galaxy.

NASA's new orbital telescope, Pandora, will watch distant exoplanets — and the stars they orbit — like a hawk

How did Earth become a planet covered in oceans? Scientists thought they knew, until this meteorite told a different story.

New research indicates that humans shaped their environments through hunting and controlled use of fire tens of thousands of years before agriculture emerged. According to the study’s co-authors, the findings offer a revised view of how early humans interacte…

"This result shows that the Event Horizon Telescope is not only useful for producing spectacular images, but can also be used to understand the physics that govern black hole jets."

In 1993, researchers exploring a cave in southern Italy found a sinkhole leading to a tunnel. At the end of the tunnel was a very strange sight indeed; ancient remains, embedded in the cave wall.

New satellite photos reveal that one of the world's largest and longest-lived icebergs, A23a, has developed vibrant blue striations on its surface. The striking snaps hint that the "megaberg" will soon disappear forever, ending a surprisingly eventful four-de…

The Orion Nebula is the closest large star-forming region, located within the Milky Way just 1,500 light-years from Earth.

Scientists used satellite data to confirm that Earth's crust is "dripping" into the mantle beneath Turkey's Central Anatolian Plateau.

Whether the snowball was hard or soft, the water beneath offered little relief to those who love warmth.

A small town in California was hit by earthquakes once every 22 years for over a century, setting the stage for a major seismic experiment in the 1980s and 90s. But the quake ended up being 11 years late. In this excerpt from "When Worlds Quake," geophysicist…

If you're a billionaire looking to jump into philanthropy there are hundreds of different causes to support.

Space apparently changes your frame of mind in more ways than one.

Our nearest neighbor, the moon, is still something of a mystery to us. For decades, scientists have wondered why it appears so lopsided, with dark volcanic plains on the near side (the side we see) and rugged, cratered mountains and a thicker crust on the far…