That kind of system could help reduce the temptation to sell to the highest bidder. Local communities can benefit. In certain parts of the world, fossil collecting is a livelihood. Families in regions ...

Titan’s atmosphere tilts and shifts seasonally. The discovery shapes future exploration. Researchers at the University of Bristol have uncovered unusual behavior in Titan’s atmosphere for the first ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories. But they kept getting an unpleasant hissing noise, in ...

For scientists, though, one big mystery still remained. Although will-o’-the-wisps are not actual flames and occur at ambient temperatures, they still have to ignite somehow. The source of that ...

Discoveries that prove aliens have visited Earth The persistent human fascination with extraterrestrial life and the fundamental question of whether we are alone in the universe ...

An artistic rendering of Thikarisuchus xenodentes, an extinct crocodyliform from the Cretaceous of Montana. Credit: Dane Johnson/Museum of the Rockies. About 95 million years ago, a little ...

NASA’s exoplanet tally has climbed to 6,000, revealing bizarre and beautiful worlds far stranger than our own.

The comet, named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third confirmed interstellar object ever seen in our solar system. That means it came from another star system entirely. At first, some speculated it could be an ...

A time crystal is a form of matter that shows continuous, repeating patterns over time, much like how atoms in a normal crystal repeat in space. Examples once existed in only complex, quantum matter, ...