Assuming there are clear skies in your area on Saturday and Sunday morning, Wyoming will be one of the best places in the country to see Uranus and four other planets line up in a rare five-planet alignment.

If a planet has an atmosphere, it's probably leaking, some faster than others.

Meet Vectipelta barrette, the newest dinosaur species discovered by scientists

A new genus and species of armored ankylosaurian dinosaur has been identified from fossils found on the Isle of Wight, the United Kingdom.

Researchers from Radboud University, led by Alex Khajetoorians and Daniel Wegner, have successfully created synthetic molecules that closely mimic the characteristics of organic ones. This interdisciplinary team can now simulate the actions of genuine molecul…

Salt crystals—which only forms when water is present—have been found on a sample of an asteroid brought back to Earth as part of a Japanese sample-return mission.

New research reveals a notable socioeconomic gap in who breathes the most toxic air. Partisan political debates often neglect to highlight the impressive results yielded by the federal government's signature environmental laws. A case in point is the Mercury …

Through computer imaging, we can see how an ancient human ancestor may have walked. Lucy is the name given to a skeleton found in Ethiopia in 1974. The disco...

If your eyes have ever been drawn to the arrangement of leaves on a plant stem, the texture of a pineapple, or the scales of a pinecone, then you have unknowingly witnessed brilliant examples of mathematical patterns in nature.

Cosmog is again available in Pokemon GO as part of the Solstice Horizons event during the Season of Hidden Gems.

For Experimental Physicists, Quantum Frustration Leads to Fundamental Discovery “Chiral bose-liquid state” is a new phase of matter, according to UMass Amherst professor. A team of physicists, including University of Massachusetts assistant professor Tigran S…

NASA has shared a fascinating photo of a flower grown in the International Space Station that instantly went viral on social media. The image was shared by NASA on Instagram which said that the agency started growing the colorful zinnia flower back in 2015 an…

There's a growing body of evidence showing that Earth formed more quickly than thought. And it didn't wait for asteroids to bring its water.

The story behind the Curiosity Mars rover's latest incredible and colorful time-blended panorama.

Can sweet feed increase the risk of ulcers for horses? How can owners mitigate the risks for a horse who needs the calories?

The puffy, scorching-hot planet has elements in its atmosphere that would normally form rocks, but are so hot that they have vaporized.

Recent calculations suggest a famous "lost" spacecraft could have been hiding for decades in orbit around the moon.

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More than 700,000 objects in the universe are available for study as part of a 3D map produced to study the effects of dark energy.

Lithium is a soft, silvery-white alkali metal used in the manufacture of aircraft and batteries, but it's surprisingly rare.

"What really makes me worried is that I think it shows where the heart of the agency is."

Scientists have likely found an undiscovered species of dinosaur that was much smaller than they would have expected.

The first data collected by the Dark Energy Spectroscopy Instrument contain close to 2 million objects, including a roughly 12-billion-year-old quasar. The collaboration expects to report their first cosmology-related results within a year.

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover sends beautiful postcard from red planet showing different times of day

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover sends beautiful postcard from red planet showing different times of day