Using the unique capabilities of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers led by Virginia Tech's Nahum Arav has discovered the most energetic...
Scientists have found evidence of active microbial communities living in the oceanic crust hundreds of meters beneath the seafloor, proving that life can find...
Chemical traces found in the shell of a marine bivalve suggest that Earth turned faster around its own axis some 65 million years ago...
Scientists have discovered footprints left by stegosaurus dinosaurs 170 million years ago on the Isle of Skye, the first evidence the iconic creatures once...
Using data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), researchers have found more than 300 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), minor planets located in the far reaches...
In 2016, our colleague Xing Lida held up a small piece of polished, deeply yellow amber. As sunlight shone through the ancient resin, Lida...
According to a new report, Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice six times faster than in the 1990s – currently on track with the...
Electrons spin. It's a fundamental part of their existence. Some spin "up" while others spin "down." Scientists have known this for about a century,...
A star that pulses on just one side has been predicted in theory. But it took two simultaneous discoveries on opposite sides of our...
The American space agency has a new name for the rover it will be sending to the Red Planet this summer.
To date, the project...
































