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Much more liquid water may lie beneath Mars' south pole than scientists had thought — or there may be something going on down there that the...

When a photographer snapped the moment a herring gull caught a french fry midair, the image quickly went viral. Now, the photo is appearing...

These creatures have evolved unique appearances, impressive superpowers, and some strange habits.

Experts are still investigating what caused the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South Condo.

Aging is determined by biological, not environmental, factors, a study suggests.

A 6- to 8-foot-long great white shark bit the right leg of a 35-year-old man body-boarding off Grey Whale Cove State Beach in San Mateo Coun...

Scientists recently discovered a new species of parasitic fungus growing inside a 50 million-year-old carpenter ant that had been fossilized...

After an attack, the woman's injuries were more serious than they initially appeared.

Can animals that live in the water suffocate?

Could a devastating comet impact in Earth's distant past have forever changed human civilization?

Planet Earth is now trapping twice as much heat as it did 14 years ago, according to findings of a new study, which raise concerns about the...

Our planet is constantly moving, racing around the sun and spinning on its axis. But how fast does it move?

Astronomers may not know what dark matter is, but they do know that galaxies are supposed to contain a lot of the shadowy, invisible substan...

Indestructible tardigrades will be subject to a series of experiments at the International Space Station to reveal how they survive in extre...

Sperm come in tons of sizes, and it all has to do with how they have to find the egg.

Several cosmic characteristics, including the lack of an atmosphere, lend space its dark color.

Live Science will explore the wondrous world of constellations in our new kids video series: Summer School with Live Science.

Scientists reconstructed a 3,000-year-old shark attack from marks left behind in the victim's skeleton.

A severe drought going into the summer is setting up the western United States for water rationing and nasty wildfires.

The worker bees' ability to clone themselves can be as destabilizing to the hives of other species as it is to their own.

Most countries that host laboratories dealing with the deadliest pathogens score low on measures of biosecurity and biosafety.

Only one week after astronomers noticed a moving object in the sky, they've identified it as a long-periodicity comet from the Oort Cloud.

The discovery of teensy baby dinosaur bones and teeth in the Alaskan Arctic reveals that dinosaurs nested and incubated their eggs there 70...

Mysterious human may have been the ancestor of Neanderthals.

EU satellites recorded ground temperatures above 118 degrees Fahrenheit in Arctic Siberia on June 20 — the 2021 summer solstice.