A 12-year-old boy in Texas just created a reactor that’s turning heads in the world of science. With years of effort behind him, his achievement might just pave the way for a new era in energy.

Learn how measuring light in March and other seasons can help you map sun and shade in your yard so you can pick plants for a healthier landscape.

The icy depths of Greenland have revealed fossils that date back 3.7 billion years, and what scientists are learning from them is nothing short of extraordinary.

Chimpanzees given a choice between crystals and ordinary rocks made the same decision our ancestors did 800,000 years ago.

In one of the biggest surprises of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, its target asteroid, Bennu, turned out to be a jagged, rugged world covered in large boulders, with few of the smooth patches of sandy or pebbly material scientists had expected based on observatio…

Trustworthy military pilots report about Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) that exceed the performance envelope of human-made…

It has long been known as the arbiter of reward in the brain, but recent findings could upend this classic theory of dopamine function.

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed new details in a bizarre nebula that looks like a brain floating in space. Formed by a dying star, the “Exposed Cranium” nebula shows layered gas and a dark central divide that creates its eerie shape. Webb’s infrar…

Your daily tea ritual may be hiding a disturbing secret in plain sight. New research uncovers what can spill into your cup during brewing, turning an ordinary sip into something far more unsettling.

Astronomers say they have likely seen a planet collision around star Gaia20ehk, located 11,000 lightyears from Earth.

Ireland is best known for its many greens, but the striking grays of the island's Burren region also stand out in satellite images.

One particularly well-known fact about the moon is that it doesn't have much of a magnetosphere to speak of. There's no blanket to protect it from the solar wind ravaging its surface, blowing away its atmosphere and charging the notoriously dangerous dust par…

Here is a problem that has been quietly gnawing at astronomers for decades. The standard approach to detecting life on other worlds involves scanning exoplanet atmospheres for oxygen, methane, and ozone, whose presence is difficult to explain without biology.…

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere, and bound to our galaxy by gravity, alongside its companion, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)…

A remarkable fossil discovery in Oklahoma reveals the oldest known reptile skin, offering vital clues about early animal adaptation to life on land.

The latest two puzzles about 3I/ATLAS stem from its large inferred size and mass (as reported here). First, its parent population cannot be…

A crushed 3.67-million-year-old skull finally yields to modern scanning, and the numbers point somewhere nobody expected.

The mission is hoping to give humanity its best look ever at Saturn's moon Titan.

Fungi may be the real-life superheroes of the natural world.

A rare camera capture has revealed that the coastal marten is still alive and well, but the creature's future is anything but certain.