These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

Researchers say the specimen will help them learn about the ‘weird, odd, wonderful, mysterious’ Pachycephalosaurus.

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

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

A strange, gleaming rock on Mars has jolted planetary scientists out of their routines, not because it is large or dangerous, but because it appears to be wildly out of place. The object, sitting ...

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

Neil deGrasse Tyson gave a rousing defense of scientific principles in his characteristic brash way during his Purdue ...

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

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

A Rutgers astrophysicist is helping to solve a cosmic puzzle that has astronomers scratching their heads. The mystery centers ...

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

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...