For years, scientists have been scanning the icy outskirts of our Solar System for an unknown massive planet. The ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

The most massive chunk of Mars ever found on Earth could sell for up to US$4 million in a Sotheby's auction later this month.

Learn about the 430,000-year-old stone tools and techniques that allowed ancient humans to butcher elephant meat for a hefty ...

Too little rain, too little water in the landscape—so simple, so serious. Even if the drought is obvious because freshwaters ...

It’s a very promising initial step. Scientists make key advancement in fight against hidden threat in drinking water — here's ...

Ecologists are concerned that forest ecosystems will not keep pace with a rapidly changing climate, failing to remain healthy ...

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday that a controversial multi-billion-dollar mega-dam on the Blue Nile was ...

A DNA test on the man’s bones has upended how historians could view the rise of Ancient Egyptian civilisation. The skeleton, ...

Instead of sticking around and remaining worried about their U.S. jobs, scientists are turning to international institutions ...

Dr. Paul Chodas, director of the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, told ...

New results published in the journal Physical Review Letters detail how a specially designed metamaterial was able to tip the ...

An invisible force has long eluded detection within the halls of the world’s most famous particle accelerator—until now.

Scientists say they’ve cracked a key challenge in scalable quantum hardware after generating an error-correcting, light-based qubit on a chip for the first time.

By using a genetic technique developed at UT Southwestern Medical Center that forces cells to rid themselves of mitochondria, researchers are gaining new insights into the function of these critical ...

If you have thought that the Earth is close to the sun in the summertime and that is why it is hotter this time of year, you will have to think again.