Scientists have identified four types of black holes, classified mostly by their masses. But these mysterious objects ...

Prior moon rock samples, including from Apollo, seem heavily influenced by one impact. The farside samples tweak the story.

The object orbits a brown dwarf that orbits a star, and astronomers aren’t sure if it’s a planet, a moon — or something else ...

A few millennia ago, people worldwide may have spoken or signed up to 10 times as many languages as they do today.

Scientists documented humpback whales hunting together at the seafloor, coordinating their arrival to scoop up sand lances.

A new snake’s unique head anatomy suggests early snakes were even more diverse than thought. This one was a rare burrower.

But a new documentary series tells a different story: one about survivors. Pompeii: Out of Time, hosted by actor Tom ...

Humans could learn from chimpanzees and bonobos, who turn to group members for physical comfort during tense moments.

In 2021, local journalists reported that the University of Pennsylvania had been keeping human remains from the ...

A new generation of therapies aims to intervene at a recently discovered gap between the disease’s molecular march and its ...

Astronomers found a helium atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet — a good sign for the search for life outside the solar system ...

Shigella causes about 450,000 U.S. infections each year. An experimental oral vaccine protected adults in a small human trial ...