Researchers in Australia found an endangered species of lamprey far outside its usual range and hope this could help them better understand how to protect it.

A newly discovered comet has astronomers excited, with the potential to be a spectacular sight in early April.

As space travel expands, scientists warn that reproductive health risks and ethical gaps can no longer be ignored.

A team of geologists found for the first time evidence linking regions of low seismic velocity and the shape of the Earth’s magnetic field.

Baby long-necked dinosaurs might have been the fast food of the Jurassic Period.

Scientists drilling into Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier faced unexpected challenges.

The discovery by JWST of a substantial population of compact

An international collaboration of astrophysicists that includes researchers from Yale has created and tested a detection system that uses gravitational waves to map out the locations of merging black holes—known as supermassive black hole binaries—around the …

Measuring conditions in volatile clouds of superheated gases known as plasmas is central to pursuing greater scientific understanding of how stars, nuclear detonations and fusion energy work. For decades, scientists have relied on a technique called Thomson s…

The space rock has a 4.3% chance of striking the Moon in six years—and it could generate a flash nearly as bright as Venus.

Llama antibodies clamp the coronavirus shut at its weakest spot—leaving the virus powerless to mutate or infect.

Even at 1/10th light speed, a grain of sand hitting the hull would detonate with nuclear force.

The Pauli exclusion principle is a cornerstone of the Standard Model of particle physics and is essential for the structure and stability of matter. Now an international collaboration of physicists has carried out one of the most stringent experimental tests …

From spaghettified convicts to doomed interplanetary liners, these space movies really pile on the misery.

Earth's magnetic field is generated by the churn of its liquid nickel-iron outer core, but it is not a constant feature. Every so often, the magnetic north and south poles swap places in what are called geomagnetic reversals, and the record of these flips is …

Right now, molecules in the air are moving around you in chaotic and unpredictable ways. To make sense of such systems, physicists use a law known as the Boltzmann distribution, which, rather than describe exactly where each particle is, describes the chance …

If a plagiarized paper by an author who claims he didn’t write it disappears from a journal’s website with no notice, did it ever exist in the first place? It’s not just a philosophical question fo…

Ionized clouds give the impression of flames surrounding the star AE Aurigae.

Natural phenomena on the Great Lakes are beautiful, but adventurers head out on the ice at their own risk.

Scientists drilled the deepest core yet, reaching near Earth's mantle, uncovering unique geological samples and offering new insights into Earth's structure.

Scientists say a jet from a previously studied supermassive black hole has grown brighter, becoming one of the most energetic events in the universe.

In the Pacific Northwest, big faults like the Cascadian subduction zone located offshore, get a lot of attention. But big faults aren't the only ones that pose significant hazards, and a new study investigates the dynamics of a complex fault zone that runs ri…

Cosmic rays are extremely fast, charged particles that travel through space at nearly the speed of light. The Amaterasu particle was detected in 2021 by the Telescope Array experiment in the U.S. It is the second-highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed, carry…

NASA releases 33 years of weekly sea level data, revealing key rises and falls for coastal areas around the world that are vulnerable today.