Category: Science

Finalists in the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025 competition capture beautiful images of animals and people oceans.

A 2012 astronaut photo shows the striking beauty of Japan’s Aso Caldera, a “supervolcanic” structure home to more than a dozen volcanoes and “hellish” hot

NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist, and Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot, walk on the crew access arm of the mobile launcher in

“Being able to send something out there would enable us to take a lot more precise data than we currently can.”

Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known as quasicrystals have bedeviled physicists and chemists. Their atoms arrange themselves into chains of pentagons, decagons and

The experimental sensor could be groundbreaking.

Saturday’s new moon is a seasonal “black moon” — a rare phenomenon that occurs once every 33 months. Here’s what that means and why it’s

A group of astronomers detect the oldest known black hole using the James Webb Telescope (Image credit: NASA/AFP via Getty Images)

Llamas are closely related to alpacas, so how can you tell these South American camelids apart?

At an average age of 70, these women divers in South Korea still forage in the sea up to 10 hours a day and spend

A gene called ASDL, which helps synthesize DNA, differs between modern humans and our extinct human relatives. The findings could shed light on why Neanderthals

NOAA’s GOES-19 satellite captured images of Hurricane Erin as it developed in the Atlantic and then rapidly strengthened into a Category 5 storm.

With new tools and greater autonomy, OpenAI’s flagship AI chatbot is more capable, and potentially more dangerous, than ever.

In-flight defecation may help the birds stay away from feces that can contain pathogens such as bird flu while also fertilizing the ocean.