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The blob — an extreme marine heatwave that hit the northeast Pacific between 2014 and 2016 — killed approximately 4 million common murre, an...

A three-part complex based on the molecules that give "Conan the Bacterium" its radiation resistance may protect humans against damage from...

Henry the Nile crocodile will celebrate his 124th birthday at the Crocworld Conservation Centre in South Africa on Dec. 16.

The world's first nuclear-diamond battery uses carbon-14 to power devices for more than 10,000 years.

"She still has one final gift for us, which is that she's now going to continue on as a weather station of sorts."

Fragments of a helmet recovered from the Sutton Hoo ship burial show that early-medieval metalwork could be decorative and functional.

Atoms make up everything around us, but do these building blocks of matter ever actually touch?

A silver amulet found in a 1,800-year-old grave in Germany speaks to the importance — and the risk — of being Christian in Roman times.

Two cannons found at a site dating to 1541 in Arizona may be the oldest surviving firearms in the U.S. They were abandoned by the Spanish af...

Astronomers analyzing archival images from JWST have discovered an unexpectedly vast population of the smallest asteroids ever seen in the a...

Here's everything you need to know to catch the Ursids, the last meteor shower of 2024.

Composite images reveal how the sun's corona changed from one total solar eclipse to another in 2023 and 2024, just as solar activity began...

The infinite monkey theorem is a fun thought experiment, but does it actually apply to our finite world?

Alien life might look unlike anything we've ever seen on Earth. Trying to find evidence of these unknown organisms will require some creativ...

Dec. 14, 2024: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the...

Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, enslaved hundreds of people. Archaeologists have discovered where 28 of them wer...

As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-tim...

Comet news, features and articles...

With wheels and a choice of two legs or four, the DEEP Robotics Lynx is capable of traversing tough terrain....

By searching sparsely populated regions of the galaxy, astronomers have for the first time found the source of...

A male humpback whale swam 8,106 miles (13,046 km) from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean, mingling with other w...

Asteroid news, features and articles...

A never-before-seen predatory crustacean that feeds on other smaller creatures in the hadal zone was discovere...

Researchers have made significant progress in the quest for scalable and fault-tolerant quantum computers afte...

The answer depends on many factors, including the amount of fuel needed, the moon's orbit and the mission's ob...