A rare August morning alignment brings Mercury, a thin crescent moon and the Beehive Cluster together in the predawn sky. Here's how you can see it for yourself.

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere).

Scientists are seeking to decipher the role of non-coding DNA in the human genome, helped by a suite of artificial-intelligence tools.

Scientists have identified the altermagnetic properties of an organic crystal using a new optical approach, uncovering unique magnetic features and opening possibilities for next-generation magnetic materials. Scientists have revealed the hidden magnetic beha…

Analytical chemistry can tell us what our ancestors ate thousands – or even millions – of years ago. Rachel Brazil gets her teeth into the evidence

MIT researchers developed a method to design and fabricate reconfigurable antennas with adjustable frequency ranges. Users can adjust the frequency by squeezing, bending, or stretching the material, making the antenna more versatile for sensing and communicat…

Self-forgiveness takes time, self-compassion, and a repair of moral identity, especially when guilt and shame feel unshakable.

A federally funded study led by biologists at Brown University has revealed that the diets of various large herbivore species are more varied and complex than scientists had previously understood. For generations, both scientists and students have sorted anim…

Ann Hodges never intended to be famous, but in 1954 she found herself thrust into the national spotlight when her afternoon nap was interrupted by a falling meteorite.

The newly-discovered hydrothermal system is over a hundred times larger than the Lost City, a unique deep-sea hydrothermal field located on the Atlantis Massif.

Nicole Ayers, a NASA astronaut, caught a spectacular moment on camera. From the International Space Station (ISS), the astronaut captured a rare form of Transient Luminous Event (TLE) called a gigantic jet.

It's in Messier 87, about 5 billion light years away, one of the biggest known galaxies.

New Ethiopian fossils show early Homo and Australopithecus lived together, revealing a complex human evolution story.

HAWAIʻI VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK - Current inflation rates have slowed to less than 1 microradian a day, likely delaying the onset of the next eruptive episode.

What: Falcon 9 rocket at Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County. When: 8:44 a.m. to 12:44 p.m. Monday, according to SpaceX. If needed, the

Police officers in southern Brazil captured an extraordinary scene when thousands of bumblebee catfish began climbing a waterfall, marking the first documented case of the species exhibiting this behavior.

Geologists have uncovered mysterious groundwater-fed oases beneath the shrinking Great Salt Lake, revealing hidden secrets that could reshape our understanding of its future.

The SpaceX clip brought forth the age-old argument on the shape of the Earth.

How can the tiniest particles and the vast structure of the universe be explained using the same kind of mathematics? This puzzle is the focus of recent research by mathematicians Claudia Fevola (Inria Saclay) and Anna-Laura Sattelberger (Max Planck Institute…

Scientists have uncovered a shocking and unexplained event beneath Greenland's ice sheet, raising urgent questions about the future of our planet’s climate.

Mercury is still shrinking as it cools in the aftermath of its formation; new research narrows down estimates of just how much it has contracted.

Russia's Bion-M No. 2 mission, dubbed "Noah's Ark," will send mice, fruit flies, and lunar simulants into space to study the effects of radiation and microgravity on living organisms.

Blue Origin's New Glenn Rocket Is Set to Launch NASA’s Mars Probes.

Mysterious fast radio bursts from deep space have finally uncovered the hidden ordinary matter lurking between galaxies, reshaping our understanding of the cosmos.

Researchers report three distinct tanystropheid taxa from the upper Blue Mesa Member of the Chinle Formation in the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, including a new genus and species, Akidostropheus oligos, with a distinctive back spike emanating fr…