The discovery could improve our understanding of how black holes lose energy and may help solve long-standing mysteries such ...

This summer marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most bizarre disease outbreaks in the history of microbiology – and one ...

It took two scientists decades to find a new nitrogen-fixing organelle. It could change the future of sustainable agriculture ...

Some 40 years ago, physicists noticed certain metals were conducting electricity in a bizarre way no one could explain. New ...

The extinct human species Homo floresiensis was a scavenger, not a hunter, an analysis of fossil animal bones reveals.

Federal agents descended on the Irvine home of a teenager whose alleged science experiments sparked hazmat crews to swarm the ...

Orange County authorities and the FBI responded Tuesday to a hazmat situation in the same Irvine neighborhood searched by ...

Are we alone in the universe? Consider mysterious "extraterrestrial" radio signals. Unexplained gases on other planets.

The exoplanet telescope TESS revealed a distant world using an entirely different detection method than the one it was built ...

Scientists have finally solved a nearly 30-year-old mystery surrounding two unusual molecules found in rye pollen that once showed an intriguing ability to help animals fight tumors. By determining ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: An exceptionally preserved coffin, which was discovered after it fell off a cliff near the coast of Poland, was hiding more than one controversy ...

ESA's Rosalind Franklin rover will use MOMA to search for ancient Martian life by analyzing chiral organic molecules.