International scientists, including a team from Heriot-Watt University, has announced plans to develop a revolutionary new ...

The Arecibo Observatory may be no longer, but its thoughtful message continues to inspire astronomers and scholars worldwide.

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

BEIJING -- China's Shenzhou XIX crew aboard the orbiting Tiangong space station received a shipment of supplies from Earth on ...

A new technique allows researchers to separate external and internal DNA to identify microbes colonizing the hostile environment of the Atacama Desert.

The New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science gave members of the media a behind-the-scenes look at its new exhibit ...

From hallucinogenic fish to nematodes oozing with lifespan-extending pheromones, many animals on Earth secrete chemicals with effects similar to those produced by Arrakis’s giant sandworms.

Scientists have long been fascinated by how ancient fish like Tiktaalik evolved the structures needed to walk on land.

Gamma radiation transforms methane into glycine and various other complex molecules. A research team reports in the journal ...

Ever since the term “Snowball Earth” was first proposed in a 1992 paper, it has prompted substantial debate among scientists.

Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes necessary ...

Stories on the discovery of vital fluid-transport systems in the human body are among the winners of the 2024 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards. Winning journalists also did immersive stories on ...