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A new study debates the complex ethical questions that must be considered if we're to terraform Mars and lays the blueprint for a potential...

Pacific spiny lumpsuckers are wee, coastal fish that look a bit like concerned strawberries, have a fluorescent glow and pack some serious b...

There are multiple contenders for the title of best smeller, but no clear winner just yet.

June 7, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the w...

The largest map of the universe, created with data from the James Webb Space Telescope, shows almost 800,000 galaxies crammed into a tiny pi...

Neurosymbolic AI combines the learning of LLMs with teaching the machine formal rules that should make them more reliable and energy efficie...

An AI analysis of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which include texts from the Hebrew Bible, could mean they were composed earlier than experts though...

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

The trove of papers from pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing was discovered in a loft.

According to new research, the active volcano that sits west of Naples has a "tuff" layer about two miles beneath the surface that traps vol...

A war of words between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and President Donald Trump could lead to significant fallout for U.S.-led space exploration.

This month will usher in two separate conjunctions — one between the moon and a rarely-visible Mercury, and another between the moon and Mar...

Some studies suggested that declining levels of taurine, an amino acid, might be a key driver of aging. But a new study defies that idea.

Three ancient Maya cities have been discovered by archaeologists in Guatemala.

Earth lost contact with the private Japanese spacecraft "Resilience" during an attempted moon landing on Thursday. The lander was carrying w...

Scientists have introduced a new laboratory model that could help them study how artificial limbs can be better designed.

A pair of new studies has revealed that the hellish skies of exoplanet WASP-121b contain silicon monoxide gas, which has never been found in...

Record amounts of sargassum are floating in the Caribbean Sea and ending up on beaches from Puerto Rico to Guyana — but scientists aren't su...

For reasons still unknown, Earth's energy imbalance is rising much faster than models can account for. Now, scientists are calling for long-...

The bizarre behavior had previously been observed in experimental settings and was thought to be a competitive attempt to escape from the re...

These 10 incredible things can be easily observed at home, in the lab or in the classroom.

Germany's Wendelstein 7-X stellarator has set a new benchmark for fusion reactors, bringing commercial, near-limitless clean energy one step...

Discover interesting facts about the origin of the human species and what makes us different from our ape cousins.

A set of dark streaks that regularly wind across the Martian surface are more likely to be formed by dust and wind than by water, a new arti...

A new analysis of ancient DNA reveals a previously unknown lineage of hunter-gatherers who lived in what is now Colombia.