An international team of researchers reports new insights into observations from NASA’s Perseverance rover. Last year, the ...

At 33.5 meters (110 feet) long and weighing more than 150,000 kilograms (330,000 pounds), the blue whale takes the crown ...

At some point between moving in and April, the radioactive source was taken out of the lead container and ended up in the ...

A new study describes the first effort to use environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding as a way to analyze a single water ...

The Southern Hemisphere’s polar vortex always weakens during spring as part of its normal seasonal cycle. However, the data ...

That’s where the black hole star comes in. That is not really a star, but a supermassive black hole wrapped around a thick ...

“Rogue waves are, simply, a bad day at sea,” Fedele concluded. “They are extreme events, but they're part of the ocean's ...

The dating revealed the eggs were deposited around 85 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period. It marked the ...

In fact, that’s not even the heaviest that these mammalian giants can get. According to Guinness World Records, the largest ever accurately measured elephant seal weighed in at a whopping 4,000 ...

The region where the gravitational influence of Earth is the dominant force, is called the Hill Sphere. This extends up to ...

W hen our prehistoric ancestors mated with Denisovans, they may have picked up some highly advantageous genes that continue ...

"After a year of review, they have come back and said 'listen, we can't find another explanation. This very well could be the ...