Along with this stunning image is the first-ever global estimate of river water discharge and overall sediment suspension.

How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

Earthquake sensors are giving scientists a new way to track space junk as it falls back to Earth.

During cocoon phase, young, supermassive black holes are surrounded by high-density gas.

AI helped researchers probe the Hubble Space Telescope's archive to find strange celestial objects, including some indescribable by science.

"Looking out into the universe is uniquely allowing us to look back in time and piece together this beautiful cosmic story that we are part of."

The crew of four will launch no earlier than Wednesday 11 February at 11:00 GMT/12:00 CET (06:00 EST) from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA. The next available opport…

Jupiter’s atmosphere and clouds have mesmerized stargazers for centuries, as their multi-colored, swirling layers can easily be viewed from powerful telescopes on Earth. However, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has upped the ante regarding our understanding of Jupiter…

A great white shark is a masterwork of evolutionary engineering.

Inventor Thomas Edison is known for being ahead of his time, and a new study could add another notch to his overachieving belt.

Online discussions can catch errors or fraud in articles that can be missed in peer review.

The volcanic hot spot is larger than Lake Superior, spewing eruptions six times the total energy of all of the world's power plants.

Using a powerful AI tool, astronomers have combed through vast troves of data from NASA's Hubble and found over 1,300 cosmic anomalies, more than 800 of which are new to science.

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Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our solar system from somewhere far beyond. It was moving at around 68 kilometers per second, just over double Earth's speed around the sun.

That's four days earlier than originally planned.

Researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), in collaboration with the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC), have led the most extensive obser…

Thyme, rosemary, and lavender have long been associated with natural medicine. Today, however, these aromatic plants are increasingly being studied by researchers. "In an era of ever-increasing microbial resistance to antibiotics, there is a growing emphasis …

Russia is testing a plasma engine prototype designed to slash Mars travel time to just 60 days. Developed by Rosatom’s Troitsk Institute, the system uses...

Building things so small that they are smaller than the width of a human hair was previously achieved by using a method called two-photon polymerization, also known as 2PP—today's state-of-the-art in 3D micro- and nanofabrication. Tiny sculptures such as a mi…

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

Archaeologists have found the oldest-known surviving examples of handheld wooden tools.

Amplification and optimal noise filtering in hyperpolarized noble-gas spins of observations from distributed intercity quantum sensors monitoring for unexpected transient rotations of polarized spins set parameter range constraints in the search for axion dar…

You don't have to be a genius: anemones have been using human genes to form their bodies for 600 million years.

We're on shakier ground than previously thought.