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…

Billions of sea stars have wasted away in recent years, their crustose, spiny bodies melted to goop by a mysterious illness known as sea star wasting disease.

When the James Webb Space Telescope first came online in 2022, it immediately spotted something astronomers had never seen before: "little red dots...

Topological quantum systems are physical systems exhibiting properties that depend on the overall connectivity of their underlying lattice, as opposed to local interactions and their microscopic structure. Predicting the evolution of these systems over time a…

The bright band of the Milky Way and the faint glow of "zodiacal light" meet above the mountains of Chile's Atacama Desert in this stunning night sky photo.

Scientists have, for the first time, experimentally proven that angular momentum is conserved even when a single photon splits into two, pushing quantum physics to its most fundamental limits. Using ultra-precise equipment, the team captured this elusive proc…

Astronomers found hidden cosmic channels, like tunnels, connecting our solar system to distant stars, reshaping views of interstellar space.

By controlling this state, researchers can enable the development of smarter, reconfigurable, and energy-efficient devices that function like the brain. Researchers at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have successfully created a new form of magneti…

The moon is becoming less visible every night.

Human evolution wasn’t a straight line. Our tree of life? More of a shrub.

Scientists used powerful X-rays to see mineral “shadows” where blood once flowed through vessels in a Tyrannosaurus rex rib.

Blue Origin says to expect a big uptick of activity at New Glenn's launchpad.

Scientists reveal how the Dsup protein found in tardigrades protects DNA from extreme radiation, which is key for future space missions.

The agency has cheaper and farther-reaching missions in its sights.

A team of scientists from Korea and Japan has discovered a new type of crystal that can "breathe"—releasing and absorbing oxygen repeatedly at relatively low temperatures. This unique ability could transform the way we develop clean energy technologies, inclu…