A Norse saga, a man in a well, and a genetic study that confirmed a legend.

Ever wondered what it would take to drill to the center of the Earth? The answers are full of surprises.

An extra stage has been identified for the first time that helps explain why ice can have a liquid layer at the surface even below freezing point.

"I think every astronomer is going to find something of value here, as NASA's missions enable the world to answer fundamental questions about how the universe got its start, and how it changed to eventually create a home for us in it."

The genetic evidence is consistent with a father-daughter union, making it one of the clearest and earliest documented cases of such extreme parental consanguinity in the archaeological record.

One of the greatest mysteries the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was developed to investigate was the birth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs).

Earth’s atmosphere is escaping into space—and the Moon has been quietly collecting it for billions of years. Shocking new research reveals a hidden connection that could rewrite everything we know about Earth’s past.

Scientists have uncovered a vast hidden landmass beneath the Pacific—larger than India and missing from maps for centuries. Nearly invisible and long dismissed, this discovery is rewriting Earth’s geological story and revealing secrets buried since the age of…

A violent stellar disruption recorded in 2024 has given astronomers their most comprehensive evidence yet of a black hole twisting the very fabric of spacetime around itself.

A bevy of comets, a "blood moon" total lunar eclipse and impressive northern lights were just three of the skywatching highlights in 2025. Here's how they unfolded.

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet still gives rise to a kaleidoscope of different cell types and tissues. A neuron doesn't look nor behave like a muscle cell but has the sa…

An investigation into one of four places where a dense, cold type of water is known to exist has sparked alarm. Find out more.

"We are committed."

For only the second time ever, a collision between two asteroids has been observed around an alien star not too far beyond the Solar System's borders.

In early December, NASA lost contact with its MAVEN spacecraft, which has been orbiting Mars…

Ancient life-sized rock art found in northern Arabia reveals how early people marked water, routes, and resources across the desert.

New research suggests that for about a billion years, Earth’s rotation stayed stable at 19-hour days due to a balance between the oceans, atmosphere, and the Moon.

How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my research would eventually lead me to ask a question about the origin of Earth-like planets. Yet that is exactly where it brought me.

HADAR night vision tech enables robots and cars to see textures, distances, and materials in complete darkness, just like daytime cameras.

An international team of astronomers has conducted optical and near-infrared observations of a supernova designated SN 2022ngb. As a result, it was found that SN 2022ngb is a faint and slow-evolving Type IIb supernova with a low-mass envelope. The new finding…

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a planet so close to its star that it's stretched into the shape of a lemon.

A nearly invisible material made mostly of air could redefine how windows stop heat and save energy.

A team of researchers now shown that a unique solution in the form of an ultra-thin, flexible, see-through film that can block almost all unwanted electromagnetic radiation.

A white-necked jacobin hummingbird chick surprises scientists, scaring away wasps by mimicking a poisonous caterpillar.

Deep beneath the soil of eastern China, scientists have uncovered a prehistoric mystery hidden inside two perfectly round fossilized eggs.