For years, NASA’s Curiosity rover has been climbing Mount Sharp, the enormous mountain rising from the center of Mars’ Gale ...

Donald Trump has been described as a strongman, a showman and a political wrecking ball, descriptions which both supporters ...

Long-term records documenting the colors of penguin guano shed light on how declining sea ice may be affecting penguin diets.

Thousands of satellites and debris fragments could act as a distributed sensor network, revealing how the thermosphere ...

When the Strait of Hormuz first closed at the start of the 2026 Iran war, the world braced for the “largest energy crisis in history.” Before the conflict began, almost 20 percent of the world’s ...

Image in Creative Commons. For roughly a century and a half, book No. 506 sat beyond the reach of every librarian who might have wanted it back — inside a tea crate, sealed behind the bricks of a ...

In one of the ocean’s strangest sleep routines, sperm whales can hang almost motionless in the water like giant living ...

Among the ruins of ancient cities scattered across northeastern Spain, archaeologists have uncovered a grisly yet fascinating relic of the past: severed human skulls, pierced with iron nails, ...

The two bird carvings are remarkably intricate. One crouches as though warming a clutch of eggs, while the other spreads its wings. Together, the two figures weigh just two grams — and spent roughly ...

This is the first evidence that the mineral garnet may have been formed within the crust of Mars itself, heralding ...

The world is running out of sand. About 50 billion tons of sand and gravel are extracted annually, most of which is used for construction activities. This is a problem for two reasons. First of all, ...

For 25 years, one of the Milky Way’s strangest stellar explosions hid its culprit behind its own debris. Now the dust has ...