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Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new study hints.

University of Zurich researchers secretly unleashed an army of manipulative chatbots on the r/changemyview subreddit — and they were more pe...

The annual Eta Aquariid meteor shower, linked to Halley's Comet, will peak overnight on May 5 and 6.

The best small telescopes, all weighing under 22 pounds (10 kg), are portable enough to travel with: Tried and tested by our seasoned astron...

New genetic research confirms what the oral traditions of the Picuris Pueblo people of New Mexico have long described — that they're related...

Geologists have found that an ancient meteorite hit Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought, which has massive implications...

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

The geology of the Cascadia subduction zone has largely staved off climate-related sea-level rise in the Pacific Northwest, but that could r...

The discovery of Eos, the closest known molecular cloud to Earth and one of the largest structures in the night sky, hints at the presence o...

A Celtic burial site from the Second Iron Age in France contains two rare, well-preserved swords.

Researchers have found that wounds heal three times more slowly in humans than in other primates and rodents, suggesting we may have evolved...

Dead stars may have started churning out vast amounts of gold much earlier in the universe than previously thought, a new study hints. Power...

The lander section of the Kosmos 482 probe was launched in 1972 and designed to survive on Venus. Now it's due a fiery reentry to Earth.

We may have gotten the evolutionary origins of the echidna backward, as new research suggests its ancestors probably lived in the water, not...

Climate change's profound reshaping of conflict dynamics is already underway. The question facing humanity now is not whether we will confro...

Recent findings indicate that dire wolves and gray wolves are distantly related, having diverged about 5.7 million years ago and, as far as...

Companies claim that Tyrannosaurus rex leather could soon be entering the luxury fashion market, but dinosaur researchers say you can't make...

Discover interesting facts about what defines robots, what they can do, and if they'll replace humans.

People with xeroderma pigmentosum can severely burn within minutes of being in the sun and are thousands of times more likely to develop ski...

Advances in materials and architecture could lead to silicon-free chip manufacturing thanks to a new type of transistor.

The 466-year-old remains of an adult and a juvenile cat are the oldest known in the modern-day United States, a new study finds.

Live Science spoke with author Thomas Levenson about his new book on the history of germ theory.

Scientists have found evidence for a cosmic collision in the Perseus cluster, a group of thousands of galaxies not far from our own.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have peered into galaxies that existed at cosmic noon to hunt ravenously feeding black hol...

Scientists in China have refuelled a thorium reactor on the fly for the first time. The breakthrough is paving the way for working reactors...