Unsurprisingly, the media has focused on Pettit's age, as the astronaut turned 70 on the very day he returned to Earth. At ...

In the process, the team think they can identify the characteristics of the ancestral rose, from which all modern roses ...

O lo is described as a "new color" that scientists argue they’ve enabled people to see – one that doesn’t resemble anything in our everyday visual experience. It’s described as an intensely saturated ...

Originally, the hypothesis was that Theia gave the Earth a glancing blow, and the proto-Earth and Theia lost pieces ending up as one or two moons that eventually formed the Moon. It was thought that a ...

It operates at an even smaller scale than most subatomic behaviors, with potential for the miniaturization of quantum ...

They have refined the estimate of the black hole mass, ruling out the possibility of it being a neutron star. It is thought ...

Behold: a live colossal squid in all its glory. After a century of searching, the extremely elusive cephalopod has been ...

An extremely bold hypothesis proposes transient temporal singularities remove the need for dark matter and dark energy.

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They're native to the lowland forests of eastern Madagascar. In this spider-eat-spider jungle environment, the spider will spin vast nets suspended above rivers and lakes to catch an abundance of ...

After analyzing nearly 1,800 brain autopsies from participants classified as either never, moderate, heavy, or former ...

T he Sun goes through an 11-year cycle of activity, going from the solar maximum, where it is covered in many sunspots and is ...