From riverbanks to shallow lakes, Spinosaurus combined display, biomechanics and hunting power in one of evolution’s strangest designs.

A tiny sea creature may have cracked the code to eternal youth, and scientists just found the cells that could make it possible for humans, too.

A massive cosmic structure hiding in plain sight may finally explain why galaxies near the Milky Way behave so strangely.

"JADES-ID1 is giving us new evidence that the universe was in a huge hurry to grow up."

The second full moon of 2026 — the snow moon — rose after sunset on Sunday, Feb. 1, lighting up the night sky across the world. Here are the best photos.

Scientists studying ancient ocean sediments discovered a surprising link between the shrinking of West Antarctica’s ice and the Southern Ocean’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide.

Generative AI models have been used to create enormous libraries of theoretical materials that could help solve all kinds of problems. Now, scientists just have to figure out how to make them. In many cases, materials synthesis is not as simple as following a…

In one of the most baffling discoveries of the last decade, scientists have found a clue in a cave to how life might survive in deep space without light.

Science News: Bright white rocks. Scattered across the rusty red plains of Mars. NASA’s Perseverance rover spotted them in Jezero crater which the scientists have b.

An international team has described Foskeia pelendonum, a tiny Early Cretaceous ornithopod from Vegagete (Burgos, Spain), measuring barely half a meter long. Led by Paul-Emile Dieudonné (National University of Río Negro, Argentina), the study reveals an unexp…

NASA's Artemis II mission is set to launch as early as Feb. 6, putting human spaceflight to the moon back in the spotlight after a 50-plus year hiatus which may inspire future filmmakers to explore the possibilities of space travel in their own work.

From looking into the future with artificial intelligence to learning about mummies of the past, the Museum of Idaho ventures further back in time, before dinosaurs existed.

A recent satellite-based study has uncovered alarming declines in groundwater storage across High Mountain Asia (HMA), widely known as the "Asian Water Tower." This critical water source, which sustains agricultural irrigation, urban water supplies and ecolog…

This humongous fungus is the biggest organism in the world

See Earth's largest impact craters, including the ones tied to extinction events and rare geological formations.

Modern mammals have unique hearing abilities, able to sense a broad range of volumes and frequencies using middle-ear features, including our eardrums and a few small bones.

Beneath Venus’s scorched surface, scientists may have found something massive—and it could rewrite planetary history.

A mysterious streak of light appeared over Wellington, New Zealand, on January 30, 2026.

In a study conducted by Dr. Mahdi Alirezazadeh and Dr. Hanan Bahranipoor, published in Archaeological Research in Asia, two exceptionally well-preserved fetal burials from Chaparabad, Iran, dating to the mid-5th millennium BC, were analyzed including burial L…

In some solid materials under specific conditions, mutual Coulomb interactions shape electrons into many-body correlated states, such as Wigner crystals, which are essentially solids made of electrons. So far, the Wigner crystal state remains sensitive to var…

Astronomers say that ancient almost impossibly massive "Little Red Dots" may be black holes trapped in "cocoons."

An old-school strength move used by farmers is quietly revolutionizing modern fitness and rehab. Trainers, doctors, and elite athletes are all turning to this brutally simple exercise for results machines can’t match.

An international team has discovered the earliest known hand-held wooden tools used by humans. A study jointly led by Professor Katerina Harvati from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen and Dr. Annemi…

An image taken by NASA's Curiosity rover shows its LED lights lighting up a hole it drilled into the surface of the rock.

‘Prototaxites taiti’ was not a fungus but an extinct eukaryotic lineage, a study reveals, resolving a mystery that as perplexed experts for centuries.