"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of physics.

Graphene is often described as a wonder material. It is strong, electrically conductive, thermally efficient, and remarkably versatile. Yet despite more than a decade of excitement, many graphene-based technologies still struggle to move beyond the laboratory.

A new type of lidar is allowing physicists to study cloud tops at a resolution 100 to 1,000 times higher than before.

Scientists have discovered a giant cosmic filament where galaxies spin in sync with the structure that holds them together. The razor-thin chain of galaxies sits inside a much larger filament that appears to be slowly rotating as a whole. This coordinated mot…

Just in time for Christmas, a vast star-forming region shaped like a Christmas tree is lighting up space 2,700 light-years from Earth. NGC 2264 is a vast region of space where new stars are actively forming, located about 2,700 light-years from Earth in the f…

Perseverance has just uncovered something that doesn’t belong to Mars, and possibly not even the solar system.

They won't be home for Christmas, but that's okay.

A sudden flash on the Moon has stunned astronomers, captured live from Earth in a rare, crystal-clear moment of cosmic impact. The brief explosion has revealed something unexpected about the Moon’s surface and what’s still striking it today.

Astronomers may have uncovered a massive hidden planet far beyond Neptune, using decades-old infrared data. The object’s faint signal and strange motion suggest something big is lurking in the dark.

The model lets scientists study the genome across time and space.

Scientists have discovered the single largest dinosaur track site in the world in Carreras Pampa, Torotoro National Park, Bolivia. The tracks were made about 70 million years ago, in the late Cretaceous Period, by theropods—bipedal three-toed dinosaurs—with b…

Scientists reexamining the Little Foot fossil find it may represent a previously unidentified human species.

Similar sensors have been used on spacecraft to learn more about distant worlds.

9,000 years ago, ocean heat caused rapid ice collapse in East Antarctica, raising concerns about future sea levels.

From humans and dinosaurs to starfish and seagrass, we are all Asgardian.

Hidden deep beneath the ocean’s surface, a bizarre shark species has just shattered scientific records with a jaw-dropping feeding strike unlike anything ever seen.

Scientists studying fossils from Ethiopia’s Afar Rift have uncovered evidence of another early human species which lived around the same time as Lucy, roughly 3.4 million years ago.

A research team has managed to “bottle” a highly reactive carbene in water, overturning a major assumption in chemistry. Chemists have pulled off a feat long considered impossible: they created a normally ultra-reactive molecule called a carbene and kept it s…

The team found nine "events" which they investigated further. Meanwhile, another team looked at the "non-gravitational" acceleration of the comet, finally pinning down a better estimate of its size.

During mating season, when male white-tailed deer want to get noticed by the opposite sex and warn off rivals, they rub their antlers against trees and scrape the forest floor. Then they pee on these patches. But there is more to these physical and scent mark…

Is this what Diplodocus really looked like? Fossil breakthrough stuns experts!

The recovery of ancient DNA is no longer limited to bones.

The borderlands of black holes ought to be chaotic spaces where the rate at which matter is drawn across into oblivion is held back only by the blinding fury of radiation spilling away from the edge of darkness.