A thick layer of more than 12 miles of rock may explain why Bermuda seems to float above the surrounding ocean.

The surprisingly high amounts of chlorine and potassium in a supernova remnant could help solve the mystery of where these ...

Nematodes discovered in the Great Salt Lake belong to at least one species that is new to science, and possibly two. A ...

The burial itself was discovered in 2018, but experts only just found the remnants of the deceased’s funeral celebration.

Scientists have managed to observe solar neutrinos carrying out a rare atomic transformation deep underground, converting ...

Finding hidden geothermal systems, where there is no visible sign on the surface of the heat below, is expensive and time-consuming. Zanskar says AI can help overcome these obstacles ...

A strange, contagious cancer is threatening Tasmanian devils, but researchers’ fight is fueling breakthroughs in science, ...

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 ...

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

For the first time, scientists have observed a swirling distortion in spacetime caused by a rapidly spinning black hole—an ...

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