It’s just one footprint, but it’s older than any other ever found in the Americas. Scientists spent nearly a decade studying it, and what they discovered changes the game.

Balanophora is a plant that abandoned photosynthesis long ago and now lives entirely as a parasite on tree roots, hidden in dark forest undergrowth. Scientists surveying rare populations across East Asian islands uncovered how its cellular machinery shrank bu…

For years, scientists thought Saturn’s moon Titan hid a global ocean beneath its frozen surface. A new look at Cassini data now suggests something very different: a thick, slushy interior with pockets of liquid water rather than an open sea. A subtle delay in…

This ancient lake was bigger than the mediterranean, and then it vanished!

Climate shocks from volcanic eruptions may have played a key role in triggering the Black Death plague by disrupting harvests.

Researchers attempted to quantify the risk of a catastrophic collision in orbit by coming up with an alarming new metric.

East Africa may look very different in five to ten million years.

What if Earth’s days had once been nearly five hours shorter—and stayed that way for a billion years?

That would be the dream.

It began as an ordinary deep-sea expedition off the coast of Vancouver Island, but what scientists found below the waves was anything but ordinary. In the…

A spacecraft just captured strange magnetic ‘tadpoles’ falling into the Sun, what they reveal changes everything.

An exoplanet located 750 light years from Earth has an atmosphere unlike anything previously known.

In the best possible news for people who like pizza, researchers report that high-fat cheese may protect brain health and reduce dementia risk. Ancient hunter-gatherer DNA could explain why some people live 100 years or more. And one philosopher believes that…

We're comparing four of Celestron's 10x42 binoculars to see which ones you should buy, and which you shouldn't.

Towering ridges, ancient Martian winds, and a crust that refuses to move… what’s really going on out there on Mars?

A research team at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) is the first ever to observe a beta-delayed neutron emission from fluorine-25, a rare, unstable nuclide. Using the FRIB Decay Station Initiator (FDSi), the team found contradictions in prior experi…

A massive plume of molten rock, hidden deep beneath the Appalachian Mountains, is on the move—and its slow journey is aimed at New York City.

For millions of years, a colossal dinosaur fossil lay hidden beneath Antarctica’s unforgiving ice — untouched, unseen, and completely unexpected.

Dec. 20, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

Scientists watching the nearby Fomalhaut star system have directly seen two protoplanets smash together for the first time. Then, they saw it happen again.

Humans grow tall in spurts, but what's our fastest period of growth?

A 400-million-year-old fossil is shedding new light on the evolution of plants and their ability to grow large.

The Webb telescope confirmed one of the fastest moving celestial objects ever detected.

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar explosion — or any other type of normal stellar explosion."

The islands of Bermuda are a scientific mystery.