The GaoJing 1-02 imaging satellite burned up over the U.S. in a mesmerizing 'fireball' that some skywatchers mistook for a meteor shower. | Continue reading
The bowstrings were found with wood-and-reed arrows and were used by the first European farmers. | Continue reading
The sun's most active phase, solar maximum, officially arrived in 2024, triggering some explosive solar storms and colorful auroras. Here are 10 of our favorite solar outbursts this year. | Continue reading
The Panasonic Lumix is a high-spec Micro Four Thirds camera with professional photo and video features that make it a great hybrid solution. | Continue reading
This might be the most important watch of the year for fitness fans. | Continue reading
New research has found a way to power spacecraft with lasers generated using solar energy alone. | Continue reading
Once thought to be 8 billion years old, the star HD 110067 — famous for its six synchronized exoplanets — may be only 2.5 billion years old, new research suggests. | Continue reading
A lyre in a treasure-laden royal tomb discovered in Mesopotamia is the earliest stringed instrument ever found. | Continue reading
How much do you know about science and nature? Try a science quiz and see how well you score against other Live Science readers. | Continue reading
Dangerous strains of E. coli bacteria can infiltrate the food supply through many different routes, experts explain. | Continue reading
How much do you know about Antarctica? Take our test to see if you'll freeze up or be as cool as a cucumber. | Continue reading
NASA's record-breaking Parker Solar Probe will smash its own personal bests for proximity to the sun and fastest speed by a human-made object when it whizzes past our star on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24). It is unlikely to get significantly closer to the sun before the end of its miss … | Continue reading
Use your digital camera to take photos through a spotting scope, and you can capture up-close images of faraway subjects (without having to break the bank). | Continue reading
An open-source database made by MIT engineers houses over 8,000 aerodynamic car designs and could train future AI models to design EVs in the future. | Continue reading
As the Atlantic grew wider, the ancestral population of all of today's oaks may have been straddling the continents of the Northern Hemisphere. If so, the ancestor of the oaks we know today was a widespread population that was cleaved in half as North America inched westward. | Continue reading
There's a cosmic 'Christmas Wreath' hanging in the Small Magellanic Cloud, the James Webb and Chandra telescopes revealed in a sparkly new image. | Continue reading
In 1974, Stephen Hawking proposed that black holes could evaporate. But do we understand how this might happen? | Continue reading
The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed 20-year-old Hubble observations that could finally explain how ancient stars can host massive planets. | Continue reading
From shocking studies to ESP, what do you know about the most infamous and bizarre psychological experiments ever conducted? | Continue reading
The Celestron PentaView’s LCD digital display makes this microscope ideal for demonstrating to a large audience. | Continue reading
Known for its uncanny resemblance to the TV character Shaun the Sheep, this adorable sea slug munches on algae to steal its ability to photosynthesize and become solar-powered. | Continue reading
Florida's non-native green iguanas become paralyzed and drop from trees when temperatures dip. Climate change could bring this problem to new areas. | Continue reading
Scientists say a phenomenon called "skin conductance," which changes when you sweat, is a surprisingly accurate method for detecting emotions — with future robots that detect this able to tell your emotions. | Continue reading
The world we live in might be unrecognizable if Alexander the Great had been defeated by the Persians. | Continue reading
Satellite imagery from NASA and the European Space Agency reveal 13 years of melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet. | Continue reading
Bacteria that are mirror images of existing ones could evade our immune systems, causing serious illness. | Continue reading
Dec. 20, 2024: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend. | Continue reading
Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them can offer a rare glimpse into how stars can endure — at least briefly — the immense gravity exerted by such cosmic behemoths. | Continue reading
Paleogenomics has finally solved a question that has puzzled researchers for decades: Where did syphilis come from? | Continue reading
An initially "unknown" illness affecting hundreds in the Democratic Republic of the Congo may be attributable to malaria, malnutrition and a viral infection. But investigations are ongoing. | Continue reading
Researchers believe volcanic ash created dark rocks at Oxia Planum, the site of a future Mars rover landing mission. The off-color rocks may be protecting signs of life — if there ever was life on Mars. | Continue reading
Archaeologists have found 188 medieval reliquaries during excavations at a square in Berlin. Some of them still contain human bones of people considered to be saints or holy. | Continue reading
Officials say they've eradicated northern giant hornets, nicknamed "murder hornets," after years of tracking the invasive giant wasps in Washington state. | Continue reading
This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in extinction. | Continue reading
Scientists investigating the frozen Lake Enigma in Antarctica discovered an ecosystem teeming with strange microbial communities. | Continue reading
The Denmark Strait cataract is a sloping portion of the seafloor between Iceland and Greenland that funnels cold water from the Nordic Seas into the Irminger Sea, fueling Atlantic Ocean currents. | Continue reading
The declaration of a state of emergency in California over avian influenza comes within days of the first severe human case of bird flu in the U.S. | Continue reading
A new magnetic survey of the ancient Assyrian capital of Khorsabad has revealed several structures, including a villa, buried underground. | Continue reading
A Japanese astronomer captured several impacts on the moon during the Geminid meteor shower. | Continue reading
With legs and wings, the RAVEN can take off with no runway, and even hop along the ground. | Continue reading
Scientists at CERN's ALICE detector are replicating conditions found during the Big Bang, attempting to get to the bottom of how matter came to dominate over antimatter. | Continue reading
Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang has scientists stumped. | Continue reading
Fossilized plant remains discovered near a Utah ghost town have stumped scientists, who are unable to link them to any modern or extinct plants. | Continue reading
The remains of ancient bronze statues, including sculpted snakes up to 35 inches long, have been found within a hot spring in Italy. | Continue reading
Ground squirrels have turned into carnivorous killers in a local park after vole numbers exploded in Contra Costa County, California. | Continue reading
The life-size clay figurines offer new insights into the organization and structure of China's army 2,000 years ago. | Continue reading
The robot's flexible arms are a technology demonstration that could one day aid in satellite maintenance and space debris management. | Continue reading
As fatal familial insomnia progresses, patients completely stop sleeping and enter a coma-like state that results in death within months. | Continue reading