New climate data raises questions about how much the Earth has warmed

One of the oldest unsolved riddles in planetary science concerns the origin of the moon. Over a century ago, George Darwin proposed that tidal and centrifugal forces on a rapidly rotating proto-Earth caused the moon to be spun off into an Earth orbit.

What could force a supermassive black hole (SMBH) out of its host galaxy? They can have hundreds of millions, even billions of solar masses. What's powerful enough to dislodge one of these behemoths?

When astronauts next go to the moon, they'll find a little bit of home waiting for them.

An ultra-hot rocky exoplanet may be wrapped in a dense atmosphere, defying expectations about what small planets can sustain. Scientists working with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found the clearest evidence so far that a rocky planet beyond our sola…

Ancient human DNA from Grotta della Monaca in reveals ancestry patterns, kinship-based burial practices, and evidence of a parent-offspring union in Bronze Age southern Italy.

There were huge disruptions to the global scientific enterprise this year — but immense bright spots for health, discovery, innovation and research collaboration.

A new model predicts, minute by minute, how individual cells will fold, divide, and rearrange during a fruit fly’s earliest stage of growth. The method may help scientists predict the development of more complex tissues or identify early signs of diseases suc…

Scientists may have discovered how the Mediterranean Sea vanished, according to a recent study revealing it happened in two phases.

With the observation of SN 2025wny, a lensed superluminous supernova, astronomy's future comes into sharp, exciting focus.

Liftoff occurred at 12:25 a.m. EST on Monday (Dec. 15).

A recent study suggests that most smaller galaxies may not have supermassive black holes in their center. This new finding goes against what scientists have previously known about galaxies and black holes. If proven to be true, it could reshape our understand…

About 880 light-years from Earth, a hot mess of an exoplanet is slowly spilling its atmosphere into space, creating two enormous tails of helium that stretch more than halfway around its star.

Astronomers at the University of Tokyo have used gravitational lensing to measure how fast the universe is expanding, adding weight to one of cosmology's most intriguing mysteries. Their technique exploits the way massive galaxies bend light from distant quas…

A never-before-seen image of individual oxygen atoms dissolved in water has been captured.

Scientists have uncovered a powerful new antibody that disrupts a key protein helping triple-negative breast cancer survive and evade immunity. Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is considered one of the most aggressive and difficult forms of breast cancer …

Rocky planets like our Earth may be far more common than previously thought, according to new research published in the journal Science Advances. It suggests that when our solar system formed, a nearby supernova (the massive explosion of a star near the end o…

Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the Northern Hemisphere more than 20 years ago, these quakes occur when huge chunks of ice fall from glaciers into the sea.

Liftoff is scheduled for 3:49 a.m. ET on Monday (Dec. 15).

NASA is sending a robotic arm into orbit to help construct habitats and vital infrastructure in space, and Space X is lending a hand. It’s been more than five decades since American astronauts have been on the Moon. But earlier this year, NASA announced plans…

Liquids and solutions are complex environments—think, for example, of sugar dissolving in water, where each sugar molecule becomes surrounded by a restless crowd of water molecules. Inside living cells, the picture is even more complex: tiny liquid droplets c…

In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have achieved the first experimental observation of a fragile-to-strong transition in deeply supercooled water, resolving a scientific puzzle that has persisted for nearly three decades.

Ancient tools, 3 million years old, have been discovered in Kenya, reshaping our understanding of early human technology.

Researchers believe that a new epoch may have begun on the Moon back in 1959, when humans first affected the surface.

Incredible dinosaur fossil reveals secrets of how it sounded, and what was inside its stomach!