It's even more evidence that Neanderthals could think symbolically, create art.

New research shows how the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, a long-used model organism, can use electric fields to ‘jump’ across Petri plates or onto insects.

What's more, the upgraded internet satellites appear to be fainter than their predecessors, which could lead to a less disruptive view of the night skies.

An asteroid roughly the size of the Titanic will pass by Earth this coming Saturday, according to NASA's asteroid tracker.NASA says the asteroid, also known as

An asteroid roughly the size of the Titanic will pass by Earth this coming Saturday, according to NASA's asteroid tracker.NASA says the asteroid, also known as

NASA's Parker Solar Probe happened to follow a trajectory that brought it close to a cloud of gas and dust that surrounds the Sun. The spacecraft gathered evidence that indicates the Geminids were formed by a sudden, powerful event, like a collision between a…

Earth's tilt toward its orbital plane is responsible for the changes in the length of the day throughout the year.

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has made its third of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury, snapping images of a newly named impact crater as well as tectonic and volcanic curiosities as it adjusts its trajectory for entering Mercury orbit in 2025. The close…

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The chemical origin of life on Earth is a puzzle that scientists have been trying to piece together for decades. Many hypotheses have been proposed to explain how life came to be and what chemical and environmental factors on early Earth could have led to it.…

The echoes, reflecting off nearby gas clouds and observed by NASA's IXPE spacecraft, are evidence that Sagittarius A* had a relatively recent outburst.

This has "very important practical implications" an author of a new study on groundwater explains to Salon

New research highlights how AI models could make it easier to create dangerous germs

An intriguing new study hints that the wing color patterns on a migrating monarch may help the insects fly better.

The international quartet will launch in mid-August.

Neanderthals likely made Europe's oldest engravings in a French cave as long as 75,000 years ago, a study suggests.

Chromosome-level assembly of 14 snakes in a study led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, has created a high-resolution genomic reference for the study of snake evolution. In a paper, "Large-scale snake genome analyses provide insights into vertebrate …

Earth won't get a light show this time, however.

Scientists have discovered a weird celestial object that's blurring the line between planet and star.

Ambient noise imaging has been a revolutionary and transformative technique in seismology in the last two decades, and its extensive application has greatly promoted the understanding of the Earth’s internal structure. The traditional ambient imaging

In a few billion years, our aging sun will run out of fuel and begin to swell, eventually engulfing Mercury, Venus, and probably Earth itself. Known as the red giant phase, this is a normal step in a mid-sized star’s life cycle, when it swells to hundreds of …

The European Space Agency's Euclid spacecraft has been fueled with hydrazine and gaseous nitrogen in preparation for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 this summer. The highly toxic hydrazine, used for propulsion and spacecraft disposal, is handled by experts wearin…

The European Space Agency said on Wednesday its space telescope Euclid is scheduled to launch on July 1, blasting off on a mission to shed light on the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.

It's boosting long-term ocean warming.