The discovery or an ultra-tiny white dwarf could reveal how stars smaller than Jupiter are born. | Continue reading
Europe's ERS-2 climate satellite has burnt up over the Pacific Ocean in an uncontrolled reentry after 30 years in orbit. No damage from falling debris has been reported. | Continue reading
A metal detectorist unearthed an ornately decorated gold ring in Denmark. | Continue reading
Certain gut bacteria reside in colorectal tumors, but the species differ depending on a patient's age, offering hope that our gut tenants could serve as early warning signs of cancer in young people. | Continue reading
You can get an amazing view of the upcoming solar eclipse with a free solar filter when you pick up a new Unistellar telescope. | Continue reading
A recent solar flare unleashed a massive plasma plume from the sun's south pole, where these stellar eruptions rarely happen. The unusual phenomenon is a sign of the impending solar maximum. | Continue reading
Intuitive Machines' robotic Odysseus spacecraft snapped a few selfies with Earth in the background shortly after its Feb. 15 launch. | Continue reading
The northern green anaconda has been identified as a new species after genetic analysis showed it split from its southern counterpart 10 million years ago. | Continue reading
Remotely operated vehicle on a research dive captures close-up video of a beady-eyed gulper eel with a parasitic copepod permanently attached to its body. | Continue reading
First ever documented evidence of a fungus, suspected to be a Mycena species, growing on the body of a seemingly healthy frog. | Continue reading
Boston Dynamics has released footage showing how its flagship Atlas humanoid robot would cope in a factory environment as it lifts heavy struts and puts them into a flow cart. | Continue reading
On Feb. 22, Venus and Mars will look like a cosmic colon as they appear side by side in the predawn sky. | Continue reading
Astronomers believe the first galaxies formed around giant halos of dark matter. But a newly discovered galaxy dating to roughly 13 billion years ago mysteriously appeared long before that process should have occurred. | Continue reading
The FDA has approved the first drug that can reduce the severity of multiple food allergies at once. | Continue reading
Researchers think the inscription is written in a Vasconic language spoken in northeastern Spain before the arrival of the Romans. | Continue reading
NASA's final tally shows that OSIRIS-REx collected roughly 4 ounces (120 grams) of material from asteroid Bennu. The sample collected from the "potentially hazardous" asteroid is thought to contain some of the earliest precursors for life. | Continue reading
The European Space Agency's ERS-2 Earth observation satellite was spotted in space as it prepares to make a fiery reentry into Earth's atmosphere on Feb. 21. | Continue reading
An analysis of children's gene activity suggests that more severe forms of appendicitis can be distinguished from milder cases based on the activity of four genes. | Continue reading
The discovery of predatory dinosaurs in marine sediments in Morocco suggests life was abundant and diversifying at the end of the Cretaceous period. | Continue reading
A temporary lake at Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park has persisted for more than six months, which is far longer than it has lasted before. And experts say that it could stick around for quite a while yet. | Continue reading
Haunting image showing two whales with their bones picked clean off the coast of Greenland has won the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024 competition. | Continue reading
A drug called Aurlumyn has been approved to treat severe frostbite in the U.S. after a successful clinical trial. | Continue reading
Two of the three last-known surviving Q1 microcomputers have resurfaced after they were last known to have been used by an oil drilling company in the 1970s. | Continue reading
A distant quasar that was initially mistaken for a star is actually one of the brightest and fastest-growing black holes ever seen. | Continue reading
The newly uncovered gene variants were identified as part of an analysis of the DNA of more than 400,000 people in the U.S. who agreed to participate in the All of Us Research Program. | Continue reading
A new study shows that invasive Joro spiders are surprisingly "urban tolerant," which could enable them to take over cities and other urban areas across the U.S. East Coast. | Continue reading
Permafrost thaw could result in new rivers forming across the Arctic, potentially unleashing 35 million car journeys' worth of carbon every year. | Continue reading
In a new video, 1X's EVE robots work together in silence in a test environment, performing actions such as sorting mail, handling objects and tidying up a child's toys. | Continue reading
Brain-computer interfaces have the potential to transform some people's lives, but they raise a host of ethical issues, too. | Continue reading
Live Science spoke with biochemist Virginijus Šikšnys, whose work helped establish CRISPR as a gene-editing system. | Continue reading
We finally understand why blueberries are blue — and the secret lies not in the flesh or skin, but the waxy coating around it. | Continue reading
A farmer in Bulgaria accidentally discovered two graves of a wealthy Roman-era family, but they appear to tell "a sad family story." | Continue reading
Scent therapy could be a useful tool for helping people with depression tap into their autobiographical memories, a small trial hints. | Continue reading
Twinkling stars can throw off telescope observations. To correct that, observatories like the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii create 'artificial stars' with lasers to hone their equipment. | Continue reading
The invisible substance called dark matter remains one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology. Perhaps, a new study suggests, this strange substance arises from a 'dark mirror universe' that's been linked to ours since the dawn of time. | Continue reading
The total solar eclipse on April 8 is part of a repeating pattern of eclipses that last visited North America in 1970, and will visit again in 2078. Here's why the same eclipse repeats every 54 years. | Continue reading
China's Chang'e-6 mission is expected to launch in May 2024 and touch down on the moon's far side to collect samples of lunar material to be returned to Earth for study. | Continue reading
Our distant fish ancestors had gills, so why don't humans? | Continue reading
Before the ancient Egyptians purposefully mummified their dead, the desert did it for them naturally. | Continue reading
A metal detectorist discovered the gold treasure in Staffordshire, England. | Continue reading
The first humans arrived in the Colombian Amazon around 13,000 years ago. | Continue reading
These tiny white bats, which can construct a leaf-made tent, are extremely picky eaters. | Continue reading
Private companies like SpaceX are crowding Earth's atmosphere with ever-increasing numbers of satellite 'megaconstellations'. For astronomers, the toll of these bright, ubiquitous objects is already painfully clear. | Continue reading
Space is a harsh place, with freezing temperatures, harmful radiation and a near-vacuum. So, what would happen to the body of an astronaut that was exposed to space's elements? | Continue reading
It's very affordable and offers a range of helpful features, but can the Morento Air Purifier pack a great performance into its low price point? | Continue reading
Researchers have found that a fossil of the lizard-like Tridentinosaurus antiquus is mostly fake. | Continue reading
On Feb. 14, the U.S. Congress learned that Russia is creating a mysterious space-based nuclear weapon to target satellites. The capability is still in development and the launch of such a weapon does "not appear imminent." | Continue reading
Two studies pinpoint long-lived immune cells that "remember" allergies and likely sustain them through time. | Continue reading