Watch the crescent moon, Venus and the bright star Regulus align in a rare predawn close conjunction tomorrow.

A jaguar was captured on camera trap on an artificial island near the Serra da Mesa Hydroelectric Power Dam. The only way it ...

How often do black holes explode? New research refines old calculations, hinting that black hole explosions may be a ...

Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may ...

What makes every person unique? Part of the answer is in our genes.

A study of human placentas suggests that urban air pollution may push the organ's resident immune cells into an inflammatory state.

The mystery of how related flightless birds ended up so far apart on different continents may have been solved.

Traditional chemical sunscreens can damage coral reefs. Scientists say there's a fix using one derived from tea plant pollen.

A well-known Maya stone carving known as Altar Q, located at the site of Copán in Honduras, may use hand signs to represent ...

Jesse Gelsinger died after receiving a gene therapy treatment to treat a liver disease. The death sparked an investigation ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

A discovery in Romania shows the remains of an elite family's treasures from the Roman era that were scorched in a fire.