Antarctica without its 27 million cubic kilometers (6.4 million cubic miles) of frozen water is a wild land.

Temperatures there soar to an incredible 30,000 to 50,000 kelvin.

In a cave in Thailand, scientists found some stunning species that have never been documented before, providing interesting new avenues for genetic research.

A paleontologist was trying to locate the site of a famous 1908 discovery when a rancher in Wyoming shared an important clue.

For decades, Paranthropus robustus has intrigued scientists as a powerful, big-jawed cousin of early humans. Now, thanks to ancient protein analysis, researchers have cracked open new secrets hidden in 2-million-year-old tooth enamel. These proteins revealed …

When is the Southern Taurid meteor shower? What to know and how to watch the Southern Taurids — and its bright "fireball" shooting stars — under bright moonlight.

With 100 Starlink missions completed for 2025, space enthusiasts have noted that SpaceX has successfully launched 2,554 Starlink satellites so far this year.

MIT researchers turned molecules into miniature colliders, allowing electrons to penetrate atomic nuclei and return clues about their internal structure. The breakthrough could expose hidden asymmetries that explain why matter exists at all.

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Divers in Taiwan film a giant oarfish, Regalecus glesne, in shallow waters. Encountering this mysterious creature is always a special treat.

The European Southern Observatory captured a nebula bat during a survey of the Milky Way's galactic plane.

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Everyone is obsessed with artificial general intelligence—the stage when AI can match all feats of human cognition. The guy who named it saw it as a threat.

Strange features of a collision point between pieces of Earth's crust are evidence that the structure may be nearing its end, new analysis suggests.

This Halloween, the James Webb Space Telescope has served us up a stunning image of the Red Spider Nebula. It could be a glimpse of our solar system will in the distant future.

Trick or treat: Here's where comets Lemmon, SWAN and 3I/ATLAS are in the Halloween sky

For the first time, a research team from the University of Cologne has observed the electron capture decay of technetium-98, an isotope of the chemical element technetium (Tc). Electron capture decay is a process in which an atomic nucleus "captures" an elect…

New evidence shows Neanderthals created cave art long before modern humans, proving their symbolic thinking and artistic expression.

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans

'Ghost particles' can zoom through you without a trace. Scientists are getting to the bottom of this cosmic mystery

Scientists are worried that the Taurid meteor shower could turn dangerous in the future.

Neanderthals were apparently no easier on their art supplies than modern kids.

California-based startup Reflect Orbital aims to build a swarm of 4,000 giant mirrors in low Earth orbit to "sell sunlight" to customers at night. Experts warn that the mirrors could mess with telescopes, blind stargazers and impact the environment.

After two decades of searching, astronomers have found a planet that mirrors Earth in unexpected ways.

In a Physical Review Letters study, the HOLMES collaboration has achieved the most stringent upper bound on the effective electron neutrino mass ever obtained using a calorimetric approach, setting a limit of less than 27 eV/c² at 90% credibility.