Researchers reported in a paper published Friday their discovery of the first coprolites, or fossil feces, found in an asphaltic...
A rich source of carbon and other nutrients has been discovered in groundwater atop Arctic permafrost, scientists say in a paper published Friday. The paper, published in...
It is already hard to believe that there is ice on Mercury, where daytime temperatures reach 400 degrees Celsius, or 750 degrees Fahrenheit. Now an upcoming...
SpaceX is aiming for a Saturday morning launch of its sixth cluster of 60 Starlink satellites from Florida. The launch is planned for 9:36 a.m. on a...
On April 29, an asteroid estimated to be between 1.1 and 2.5 miles wide will fly by Earth. But it’s not expected to collide with our...
Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe since the Big Bang. The blast came from a supermassive black...
Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth to be potentially habitable, opening the search for life to planets significantly larger than...
Using a machine-learning algorithm, MIT researchers have identified a powerful new antibiotic compound. In laboratory tests, the drug killed many of the world’s most problematic disease-causing...
Fossils of a turtle the size of a car have been unearthed in what is now northern South America. The turtle – Stupendemys geographicus – is...
Chocolate chip cookies have become the first food to be baked in space in a first-of-its-kind experiment. Astronauts baked the cookies in a special zero-gravity oven...
