Yellowstone, a popular tourist destination and namesake of an equally popular TV show, was the first-ever national park in the United States. And bubbling beneath it—to this day—is one of Earth's most seismically active networks of volcanic activity.

A groundbreaking discovery of a 183-million-year-old giant ichthyosaur fossil with preserved soft tissues is rewriting the story of prehistoric marine predators.

A new international study suggests that ancient viral DNA embedded in our genome, which were long dismissed as genetic "junk," may actually play powerful roles in regulating gene expression. Focusing on a family of sequences called MER11, researchers from Jap…

"The mountaineer defies gravity; the astronomer looks up. Both seek to reach the unreachable."

A strange radio emission in the Abell 3558 galaxy cluster has astronomers stunned.

Astronomical discovery: supersonic gales of 20,500 mph batter the exoplanet WASP-127b, breaking cosmic records for atmospheric speed.

Astronomers spotted a baby star displaying the very first signs of planet formation in the zone surrounding it, similar to how our own solar system was born.

Artifacts from the Iron Age have revealed an intense historical magnetic anomaly in the Middle East. Could using a similar approach elsewhere help us unravel...

Artifacts from the Iron Age have revealed an intense historical magnetic anomaly in the Middle East. Could using a similar approach elsewhere help us unravel the mysteries of Earth's magnetic field?

“One year ago, this was out of the discussion.”…

Massive, ancient 'fortresses' discovered deep within Earth's mantle.

We’re starting to find features that distinguish one Neanderthal culture from another.

A Neanderthal variant in an enzyme involved in energy production has been linked to ​​a 50% lower probability of achieving elite athletic performance.

A massive landslide would have dammed the Colorado River, forming a deep lake that has since dried up.

Using a cutting-edge magnetic wave detection technique, a new study in Nature Communications has identified lithium in Mercury's exosphere for the first time.

Rise and shine! Venus, Aldebaran and the moon team up for a dazzling dawn display.

Fundamental technique lets researchers use a big, expensive “teacher” model to train a “student” model for less.

A groundbreaking discovery reveals how supersonic turbulence and magnetic fields are sculpting the structure of a distant, fast-moving interstellar cloud.

On episode 393, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 quartet each dive into their paths to space and what lies ahead aboard the International Space Station.

A garden wall stone turned out to hide a prehistoric beast—Arenaerpeton, a tusked, heavyset amphibian that once prowled ancient rivers 240 million years ago.

Sleep may not just be rest for the mind—it may be essential maintenance for the body's power supply. A new study by University of Oxford researchers, published in Nature, reveals that the pressure to sleep arises from a build-up of electrical stress in the ti…

A newly uncovered 225-million-year-old fossil challenges everything we knew about early dinosaurs.

The future of at least one of the U.S. LIGO observatories is in jeopardy as deep cuts to science programs are proposed by the Trump administration.

"It's almost unfathomable to imagine what is happening to this planet. The planet's atmosphere simply cannot withstand the high X-ray dose it's receiving from its star."

The sky's orange and green glows cast a "tie-dye" effect around the moon's outline.