The gates are open to some of history's most sinister structures. From the terrifying Tower of London to a hotel of horrors, discover the dark secrets hidden...

Close binary stars are responsible for the alignment of planetary nebulas shed by exploding stars in the Milky Way's galactic bulge.

Griffith University researchers have played a vital role in controlling the way viruses are built by utilizing DNA 'origami' templates.

No, oxygen didn't catalyze the swift blossoming of Earth's first multicellular organisms. The result defies a 70-year-old assumption about what caused an explosion of oceanic fauna hundreds of millions of years ago.

Bilateriaans are a group of animals with bilateral symmetry as an embryo i.e. having a left and a right side that are mirror images of each other.

The chronology and mode of parallel evolution remain unclear. Here, the authors compare mid-Holocene and contemporary bottlenose dolphin adaptations between pelagic and coastal ecosystems with paleogenomics, finding rapid adaptation to newly emerged habitat f…

The magnificent marine mammal washed up on Caipe Beach in Sao Francisco do Conde on July 16. Footage taken by onlookers shows how tears seemingly stream down the whale's face.

Though we may often think of fossils purely as the bones of ancient organisms that roamed the Earth millions of years ago, in fact, we are actually able to see evidence of this past roaming itself.

Physicists worldwide are trying to detect dark matter (DM) particles and their interactions with visible matter using various strategies and detectors. As these particles do not emit, reflect or absorb light, they have so far proved to be very difficult to ob…

In a world full of bizarre animals, hairworms are some of the strangest. Hairworms are parasitic worms that manipulate the behavior of their hosts in what's sometimes called "mind control."

Liftoff is scheduled for 12:40 a.m. ET on Wednesday (July 19).

Navigation Technology Satellite-3 was supposed to fly in 2022, but delays to its host mission and rocket have pushed that plan back by two years.

Fossil hunters stumbled upon a large mammoth tusk during a "fossil walk."

The study “Understanding atmospheric intercontinental dispersal of harmful microorganisms” compiles the scope of the problem of the global dispersal of harmful microorganisms through the upper layers of the atmosphere.

Chandrayaan-3 will cover 3,84,000 km from Earth to the Moon in about 40 days. The Apollo mission reached the Moon in just three days after launch. Why is ISR...

By treating Earth as a topological insulator — a state of quantum matter — physicists found a powerful explanation for the movements of the planet’s air and seas.

The 2023 Perseids meteor shower is underway.

Astronomers from the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei report the discovery of a new faint tidal disruption event (TDE). The newfound TDE, designated AT 2023clx is the faintest and closest optical TDE so far detected. The finding was publ…

The Mars Express orbiter has sent a series of seemingly unremarkable pictures to Earth. At first glance, they may look like fuzzy, out-of-focus images, but t...

Jake Watson, producer at the popular YouTube channel Corridor Crew, strapped a tiny action camera to his cat, which spotted a rat right away.

This ultra-hot Neptune-like planet is unique because no other similar celestial body has been observed orbiting so close to its star.

But a review of existing fossil holdings published last year in the journal Alcheringa sought to turn decades of paleontological wisdom on its head.

Cannibal coronal mass ejections are when a faster-moving plume of solar plasma catches up and engulfs a slower preceding CME.

Issues are particularly acute in more energy intensive parts of the body such as the brain and muscles, causing severe issues such as mitochondrial encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) syndrome, a debilitating condition. Sadly, the…

On National Moon Day, we celebrate not only humanity's remarkable achievements in lunar exploration but also India's rich ancient heritage of moon-related research. While modern space missions have brought us closer to our celestial neighbor, it is worth delv…