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What if there is more than one cosmological agent for dark energy? This mixture would have strange effects in our universe, making it potent...

If humans had green skin, for instance, what if it granted us the ability to perform photosynthesis, which plants use to live off of sunligh...

Mars' Valles Marineris is nearly 10 times as long as the Grand Canyon and three times as deep, but nobody knows how it formed.

The U.K. authorized the shots for emergency use last week.

Sustainable sources of energy are renewable and are generally less harmful to the environment than fossil fuels.

Expect more virtual archaeological digs, possibly more looting and definitely more mummies in 2021.

Dozens of Roman Army camps have been discovered in Spain, revealing more about one of most infamous Roman conflicts.

Archaeologists claim that they have identified the deadly dance floor where John the Baptist — a preacher who foretold the coming of Jesus —...

It depends on your definition of monotheism.

Medical discoveries dominated the news in 2020, but even under pandemic conditions, astronomers discovered amazing things in space in 2020.

Eclipses and other phenomena in the night sky have captivated people since ancient times.

To protect endangered black-footed ferrets from COVID-19, scientists in Colorado have injected a major captive breeding population with an e...

From a colossal explosion to mystery burps deciphered, here were some of the top stories in physics in 2020.

Despite the difficult year, many archaeological and historical discoveries came to light, including a sprawling geoglyph in Peru, a trove of...

Here are just some of the ways COVID-19 changed the world in 2020.

This year saw a possible first detection of solar axions, and the possible death of the sterile neutrino.

From record wildfires to a bumper crop of hurricanes to melting poles, here are some of the biggest signs in 2020 that climate change is spe...

Invading pythons are causing problems for the native wildlife in Florida. Should people start eating them and are they even safe to eat?

'Naked' sharks, secret galaxy mergers, disco tardigrades and more incredible science photos from this crazy year.

Some of this year's top science stories were truly the stuff of nightmares.

Some human ancestors are known only as "ghost" populations.

Researchers believe color changes could be used as a proxy for the health of river ecosystems.

Here, we take a look at some of the most spectacular black hole findings of 2020.

Remembering the cannibal dinosaurs, chest-bursting eels, and rampaging galaxies that made 2020 heavier than dark matter.

Here are 10 gnarly animals from our ocean's depths.