Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, we now know that a day on Uranus lasts for 28 seconds longer than previously thought - ...

Even animals with very small brains turn out to have cultural traditions, which poses a puzzler for biologists wondering what ...

Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

It's not a just a revolutionary and safe vaccine technology – mRNA could help make the best and most expensive drugs in the ...

Our current best theories of the universe suggest that dark energy is making it expand faster and faster, but new observations from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument suggest this mysterious for ...

Scientists have long sought the particle that carries the force of gravity, but a new theoretical model tosses out that idea entirely – and shows how it could be tested in experiments ...

Can one single mathematical framework describe the motion of a fluid and the individual particles within it? This question, ...

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is unusually magnetic ...

A World Meteorological Organization report details a long list of grim records for everything from CO2 levels and temperature ...