A humble desert moss found in China's Xinjiang region can endure the brutal conditions of Mars, according to new research from the Chinese Academy of...
Scientists in Chile have discovered that the angle of a camera trap photo can be the difference between identifying one guiña cat and another. The...
A set of megalodon vertebrae that vanished for over a century has resurfaced in Belgium, finally confirming that the prehistoric shark could reach 80...
The Pink Planet has a secret. Its skies are filled with salt clouds, a feature never before directly confirmed on any cold planetary object...
A space telescope designed to catch the universe's most fleeting explosions may have just recorded something even rarer: a black hole of middling...
A giraffe named Gracie who wandered away from her home in Texas has been found alive and well on a ranch, ending a search that had already fooled...
A newly identified dinosaur from Argentina ate fish and belonged to a family of raptors previously known only from China. The fossil, found in...
A new study suggests Earth may have been accidentally sending tiny hitchhikers to Venus for billions of years. Researchers from Johns Hopkins...
In a single valley in the Himalayas of Nepal, three of the world's most formidable predators are living side by side without direct conflict. Snow...
The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope, a mission with significant NASA involvement, has captured an image of the Milky Way's core that...
A chandelier of stars hangs in the constellation Sagittarius, and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured it in new detail. The object is a...
NASA's newest Earth-observing satellite, PACE, has captured unusually detailed images of smoke from Canadian wildfires drifting across the Great...
The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope has produced the largest high-resolution visible-light photograph ever taken of the Milky Way's...
A marine biology expedition in international waters off the coast of Brazil has identified 31 new species in only two weeks. The speed of discovery...