The discovery In May 1925 provided fodder for the argument between creationists and evolutionary biologists, but what does ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

In a world driven by data, algorithms, and relentless scientific progress, you’d think we’d have all the answers by now. But ...

And [thy] are ecologically very important predators in nearly all marine systems.” Recently, the duo’s long-term friendship ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they ...

Sarah Fortune, a marine ecologist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, and her colleagues used drones and camera-equipped ...

An analysis of Mars rocks suggests the Red Planet may have once resembled a tropical oasis, with warm, humid conditions and ...

One mission would involve a full 300 sols on the Red Planet, with the goal of finding extinct or current life on Mars. But ...

For centuries, Europeans thought that eternal daylight saturated the cosmos. The shift to a dark universe has had a profound ...

We've only known that sprites exist for marginally longer, as they were first photographed in 1989. Red sprites are ...

Though there were setbacks on climate change and funding for science this year, there was still plenty of amazing discoveries ...