This pit crater making recent headlines may open into a larger cave that could provide a sheltered environment for both astronauts and hypothetical Martian life. | Continue reading
After Mount Vesuvius erupted, survivors from the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum fled, starting new lives elsewhere. | Continue reading
Using only a small embeddable computer, microphone-equipped consumer headphones can block out all environmental sounds apart from a single target voice — even if it moves around. | Continue reading
This 2017 satellite photo shows an unusual cloud "cyclone" nestled up against the coastline of Spain and Portugal. Researchers are unsure what caused the strange structure's spin, but ocean eddies and an extreme heat wave likely played key roles. | Continue reading
Thirty-year-old Noland Arbaugh says the Neuralink chip has let him "reconnect with the world" | Continue reading
Mysterious dark matter could slosh over our planet like a wave. If it does, it may produce telltale radio waves in Earth's atmosphere, new theoretical research suggests. | Continue reading
Camera traps in Indonesian Borneo recorded a clouded leopard mother with her two cubs in first time footage of its kind. | Continue reading
Shipwrecks can reveal information about traded goods and even which rituals people partook in centuries ago. Here's a look at shipwrecks from ancient times found around the world. | Continue reading
Images from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory have been combined to reveal how the Crab Nebula's neutron star is changing. | Continue reading
Getting an epidural during labor was linked to a 35% reduction in severe maternal health complications in a new study, with even higher protective effects in people with preterm births. | Continue reading
The silver ingot would have been used during the Viking Age in exchange for goods and services. | Continue reading
This eel-like fish lives on the seabed over 300 feet below the surface where it feasts on dead animals and protects itself from attack using a suffocating slime. | Continue reading
The search for alien life is one of humanity's greatest missions, but it may look nothing like anything we've seen on Earth. | Continue reading
A difficult-to-treat form of ringworm can spread via sex and has now been seen in the U.S. | Continue reading
The James Webb Space Telescope has found carbon in a galaxy just 350 million years after the Big Bang. That could mean life began much earlier too, a new study argues. | Continue reading
DNA from prehistoric and modern-day people suggests that humans interbred with Neanderthals 47,000 years ago for a period lasting 6,800 years. | Continue reading
A company that ships whole cucumbers from Florida has recalled potentially contaminated produce. | Continue reading
The Cascadia subduction zone is more complex than researchers previously knew. The new finding could help scientists better understand the risk from future earthquakes. | Continue reading
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, also known as the devil comet, recently made its closest approach to Earth for more than 70 years. During this close encounter, astrophotographers spotted a seemingly impossible "anti-tail" coming off the comet thanks to an extremely rare optical illusion. | Continue reading
A new public competition will allow a lucky astronomy enthusiast to name one of Earth's tiny "quasi-moons." Here's everything you need to know about how to enter the competition for free. | Continue reading
Crafted out of the trunk of a larch tree, this towering figure features several human faces. | Continue reading
Visitors at a tiger reserve in India recently filmed an encounter between a tigress and a bear, with the bear charging after the tigress but deciding at the last minute it was not worth the fight. | Continue reading
Zombie fires that burn underground over winter may be a case of climate change-driven spontaneous combustion, new research reveals. | Continue reading
A new study has identified more than 140 novel genetic risk factors associated with the development of restless legs syndrome. | Continue reading
Rare earth elements are necessary for modern technology, including green energy, but they only come from a few sources around the globe. New research has discovered them hiding in coal mines in the U.S. | Continue reading
Disruptions to a single network in the brain may be responsible for stuttering, new research suggests. | Continue reading
A person in Mexico caught the world's first laboratory-confirmed case of H5N2 bird flu in humans and died of the infection. | Continue reading
Ancient DNA of nearly 500 horses reveals that humans didn't domesticate them until 2200 B.C., 1,000 years later than we previously thought. | Continue reading
Two helium leaks appeared on the spacecraft en route to the International Space Station, in addition to a leak engineers knew about prior to launch. The crew are not thought to be in any danger. | Continue reading
The three-body problem is a physics conundrum that has boggled scientists since Isaac Newton's day. But what is it, why is it so hard to solve and is the sci-fi series of the same name really possible? | Continue reading
Researchers have engineered a silk fabric that can suppress noise by either generating sound waves that interfere with the noise or by blocking vibrations that are key to the transmission of sound. | Continue reading
Social media, city life and even our sweet tooth can affect stress levels, health and even how many children we have. | Continue reading
Astronomers using the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona have taken a close-up picture of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io that rivals similar photos taken from space. | Continue reading
New research in marine mammals suggests the virus is increasingly adapting to mammalian hosts. | Continue reading
A metal detectorist found the sword, ax head and bangle after he became separated from his peers during a treasure hunt in England. | Continue reading
From dangerous lion reserves to high mountain peaks, photographers go all out to capture the most spectacular images of our galaxy in this year's Milky Way Photographer of the Year competition. | Continue reading
Thousands of years ago, a large swath of the Sahara may have been a green grassland ideal for raising cattle. | Continue reading
In a new book, Layal Liverpool discusses how addressing racial biases in medicine and upending ideas like the "inferior Black pelvis" will lead to a healthier world. | Continue reading
In a new book, science journalist Layal Liverpool sheds light on pervasive, racialized inequities in health care, including in reproductive care. | Continue reading
An unusual northern rātā tree that looks like it is striding across an empty field has been crowned New Zealand's Tree of the Year. The giant plant, which looks strikingly similar to an Ent from "The Lord of the Rings," is centuries old. | Continue reading
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft successfully carried two NASA astronauts to space today (June 5) in the final test of the spacecraft's capabilities. Starliner is bound for the International Space Station. | Continue reading
These binoculars pull double duty in day and night-time, and you can save $400. | Continue reading
Lightweight fighter aircraft with no pilots could support conventional military missions while being easier to launch and recover. | Continue reading
Archaeologists used cameras and drones to fully map 14 massive rock art sites scattered across Venezuela and Colombia. | Continue reading
Certain stretches of ancient viral DNA in the human genome may increase the chances of developing three neuropsychiatric disorders. | Continue reading
This infection, tied to an ongoing outbreak in cows, is the first in the U.S. to cause respiratory symptoms, but not the first H5N1 case in the world to do so. | Continue reading
China's Chang'e 6 spacecraft successfully touched down on the far side of the moon on Sunday (June 2). China has now landed two missions on the moon's mysterious far side. | Continue reading
Despite numerous tests, experts still can't figure out why smalltooth sawfish in Florida are dying in such a strange way — spinning, thrashing and beaching themselves. | Continue reading