NASA’s Lucy spacecraft discovered asteroid Donaldjohanson is a wobbling, peanut-shaped remnant from a past collision, with signs of ancient water; this reveals…

NASA’s TESS mission discovered two "super-puff" planets, TOI-421 b and TOI-530 b, which are larger than Jupiter but so low-density they’d float in water. Their…

Scientists observed water molecules at -42°C rapidly switching between two distinct arrangements, suggesting water may exist in two phases. This discovery coul…

All 19 Homo naledi skeletons found in South Africa's Rising Star cave belong to females, challenging prior assumptions about early human behavior and group dyn…

Scientists identified a specific group of thalamic neurons that act as a distraction filter in mice, whose activation restored focus when interrupted. This dis…

Scientists found influenza viruses hide in cell debris released during cell death, using it to spread undetected. This discovery suggests new strategies are ne…

Emmy Noether’s theorem proves that every symmetry in nature corresponds to a conserved quantity like energy or momentum, underpinning modern physics. Without h…

Scientists discovered that worker bees create insulated "royal cribs" and adjust care to turn larvae into queens, not just royal jelly. This matters because he…

Researchers say the discovery could be a “Rosetta stone” for cosmic signals.

Developing new medicines can require thousands of chemistry experiments to identify the right recipe for a safe, effective and ideally affordable drug.

Divers in Papua New Guinea recently discovered a new species of carpet shark that can traverse low-lying reefs.