An international team of researchers reports new insights into observations from NASA’s Perseverance rover. Last year, the ...

“Rogue waves are, simply, a bad day at sea,” Fedele concluded. “They are extreme events, but they're part of the ocean's ...

A new study describes the first effort to use environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding as a way to analyze a single water ...

The Southern Hemisphere’s polar vortex always weakens during spring as part of its normal seasonal cycle. However, the data ...

T his is the story of a stowaway rat, who hopped on a transatlantic flight, caused mass panic, had its travel plans rudely ...

Given that the gray sandstone and siliclastic sediment was deposited over a long, long time, it was evidence that right at the beginning of the age of the dinosaurs when their numbers and diversity ...

At some point between moving in and April, the radioactive source was taken out of the lead container and ended up in the ...

That’s where the black hole star comes in. That is not really a star, but a supermassive black hole wrapped around a thick ...

The winners this year are photographers Weitang Liang, Qi Yang, and Chuhong Yu with a fantastic, fiery view of the core of ...

The region where the gravitational influence of Earth is the dominant force, is called the Hill Sphere. This extends up to ...

W hen our prehistoric ancestors mated with Denisovans, they may have picked up some highly advantageous genes that continue ...

In fact, that’s not even the heaviest that these mammalian giants can get. According to Guinness World Records, the largest ever accurately measured elephant seal weighed in at a whopping 4,000 ...