A day on Uranus is about half a minute longer than previously thought, according to new research. Nearly 40 years ago, ...

A scientific analysis of dozens of 12th- and 13th-century books found in European monasteries reveals they were bound in ...

As climate change melts ice sheets and glaciers, water is being redistributed across the globe — and could end up moving the ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured breathtaking video of a rare atmospheric phenomenon from his perch high above Earth on the International Space Station.

Comet SWAN25F was discovered using photos from the European Space Agency's SOHO spacecraft and can currently be spied using ...

Video footage captured by NASA's Perseverance rover shows a small "dust devil" merging with a much larger twister on the ...

The weapons from a toolkit unearthed in Texas may be the earliest ever found in North America. Archaeologists in Texas have ...

The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and ...

Epigenetic changes in the placenta may shape how the fetal brain develops and thus influence the risk of psychiatric disorders.

Researchers bombarded these hybrid lifeforms with a year's worth of Martian radiation in just 5 hours — and they survived, ...

Social signals stop young labyrinth spiders from hunting their siblings even when they are starving. However, the ...

Japanese engineers have unveiled a concept design of the Corleo, a four-legged robotic horse that could one day carry people across a vast range of terrains.