The radio 'howl' of a lightning-like discharge has been detected at Mars for the first time.

Let's say Godzilla exists and walks among us like in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Could humans actually stop him, or even survive? We spoke to the experts to find out.

A massive cluster of fossilized eggs has just been opened in China, revealing what was happening before one species ever took to the skies.

The European Space Agency (ESA) just released here a new image of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, obtained by the JANUS camera onboard…

NASA is now looking at an April launch at the earliest for Artemis II, its first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years.

Tardigrades, commonly known as water bears, may be better suited by a new name: Tardiguardians of the Galaxy. Unlike the fictional ragtag team of unenthusiastic heroes, the microscopic animals are providing real insight into how humans could adapt extraterres…

Scientists found a radiation-tolerant fungus inside Chernobyl’s reactor building, where it appears to grow stronger.

"Monogenic" diseases, triggered by mutations in just one gene, may actually be more complex than scientists thought.

In one of Earth’s harshest deserts, translucent crystals are preserving microbial traces, clues that could reshape the search for past life on Mars.

Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.

Rising carbon dioxide levels are being detected within the human body, with new research warning a key blood marker for the gas could near its healthy limit within decades if current trends continue. The findings are especially relevant for children and adole…

Greenland's largest glacier, Jakobshavn Glacier, may be edging closer to a critical threshold as meltwater runoff from the Greenland Ice Sheet accelerates in ways not seen in over a century, according to new research published in Climate of the Past. The stud…

Invisible for 115,000 years, these chilling "ghost fossils" just emerged from the burning sands of the Nefud Desert to rewrite human history.

Baby dinosaurs weren’t coddled like lion cubs or elephant calves—they were more like prehistoric latchkey kids. New research suggests that young dinosaurs quickly struck out on their own, forming kid-only groups and surviving without much parental help, while…

Martin Kamen and Samuel Ruben's discovery of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 in 1940 helped usher in a new era of dating artifacts from past civilizations.

Tiny insects trapped in amber could tell us a great deal about their roles in past ecosystems: pollinators, parasites, predators, and prey. But how many of the insects preserved alongside each other reflect interactions during life, and how many are just unlu…

A recent study by the University of Bonn and University Hospital Bonn and the University of Freiburg shows that the mitochondria appear to be able to influence the number of lipid droplets in the cell using a mechanism that is actually intended for a complete…

Some computers are easy to spot. Artificial, human-built computers like those found in smartphones and laptops are abstract dynamic systems with observable computational elements like input, output, energy cost, and logical processes. Other computers aren't s…

It’s a comforting idea, but a new study did not find evidence to support it.

Some of the universe's most extreme explosions leave behind almost no trace. The original explosion is unseen, but our observations can capture the long-lived echo it leaves behind as the shock front plows into its surrounding environment. In new research acc…

Some single-celled organisms are known to transition to multicellularity during their lifetimes, usually either by cloning themselves or when many similar cells come together to form a larger multicellular organism. A new study published in Nature suggests th…

The answer is a “perfect red,” and its discovery might be worth billions of dollars.

There are some things in life that many people just don't think to question.

A NASA astronaut has voluntarily stepped forward, announcing in a NASA statement that it was he who had "experienced a medical event."