Thorium-229’s unique nuclear traits offer billion-fold sensitivity to detect ultralight dark matter before nuclear clocks exist.

Gigantic hidden fortresses discovered 1,800 miles underground in Earth's mantle, rewrite how the planet's interior works.

Fresh clues beneath one of Earth’s most powerful supervolcanoes reveal how it could explode – unleashing global devastation.

Scientists at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science discovered a 67 million-year-old dinosaur fossil hidden under their noses — in the museum’s parking lot.

At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How this happened is one of humankind's greatest mysteries. Today, scientists work to develop synthetic cells that mimic living cells, hoping…

Colossal Biosciences has announced a partnership to resurrect giant flightless birds called moa. But the company's recent dire wolf project was controversial, and moa are an even more ambitious target for de-extinction.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab is reportedly holding a "going out of business sale" for its satellites, NASA Watch reports.

Researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich have successfully created the world's first experimentally verified two-dimensional half metal—a material that conducts electricity using electrons of just one spin type: either "spin-up" or "spin-down." Their findings,…

Titan shadow transit seasons occurs just once every 15 years.

After nearly a year of trying to fix the ill-fated spacecraft, NASA says Starliner is set for a cargo mission in 2026.

New photos, including a striking technicolor timelapse, show off the newly discovered interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it shoots toward us through the solar system.

Curiosity Rover's latest mission on Mars uncovers groundbreaking geological insights and navigates the Red Planet's terrain with precision and care.

LHCb result is consistent with the Standard Model, but could provide a path to new physics

The images sent home from Tianwen 2 show the spacecraft is operating well as it heads out into deep space

This past May, employees at the Honister Slate Mine in Cumbria, England, stopped short when they noticed an animal perched precariously on the rocky mountain ledge above their heads. Worried for the animal’s safety, and concerned she might topple rocks onto t…

Using ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein, a team of researchers has detected a cosmic merger of unprecedented proportions.

The possible aurora borealis coincides with the Perseids meteor shower, with hundreds of meteors likely visible in the night sky during its peak.

A newly discovered dinosaur species, Pulaosaurus Qinglong, found in China, offers groundbreaking insights into Jurassic evolution and prehistoric ecosystems.

A new marine reptile from the Cretaceous period, Traskasaura sandrae, had an unprecedented vertical hunting style.

The mysterious goo, which a marine superintendent found in a ship’s rudder shaft housing comprised a whole new order of archaea.

A bionic knee that directly attaches to the thigh bone and uses implanted electrodes can make a prosthetic leg feel more like a part of the body, a new study finds.

An international team of astronomers has performed multi-band radio observations of diffuse radio emission in a galaxy cluster known as Abell 3558. As a result, the observational campaign detected that the cluster hosts a peculiar mini-halo. The finding was d…

The SLS payload adapter is moved as it concludes its rigorous testing

“It contains features that have not been observed in any living or extinct animal,” said Dr Dean Lomax to IFLScience.

Scientists discover a radioactive spike of beryllium-10 (10Be) in Pacific Ocean sediments, revealing ancient climatic and cosmic events.