Category: Science

A century of hints has suggested the famed red supergiant had a star pal but seeing it amid Betelgeuse’s brightness has been hard — until

A pod of killer whales has sunk another yacht off northwestern Spain, reinforcing a bizarre pattern of vessel encounters that has stretched on for more

We’ve all heard of the fearsome megalodon, the largest known shark to have ever lived, but how about its predecessors, contemporaries and successors? Shark Week

For over 20 years, Live Science has been committed to bringing you the latest breakthroughs and incredible discoveries with clarity, authority and good humor (when

In a few short years, artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed how we interact with computers and threatens to upend wide swathes of the job market.

Science word of the day: Seamount Pronunciation: SEE’-mount What it means: A seamount is an undersea mountain that rises at least 3,300 feet (1,000 meters)

Cut marks suggestive of cannibalism have been discovered on the fossils of an ancient human relative in a cave in Spain, new research finds. But

Within every cow is a thriving ecosystem. Churning deep in its intestines, a massive fermentation chamber known as the rumen hosts a robust microbiome that

NASA astronaut Chris Williams is seen outside the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft after he landed with Expedition 74 Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and Sergei Mikaev in

QUICK FACTS Name: Relief fragment with vanquished enemies What it is: Painted sandstone Where it is from: Luxor, Egypt When it was made: Circa 1427

Science word of the day: Pando Pronunciation: PAN’-doh What it means: In Latin, “Pando” means “I spread.” And boy, does it. Pando is a clonal

Researchers scanned the ears of hundreds of marine mammals to deduce when pinnipeds evolved to hear well in both air and water.

Richard Feynman was a serious physicist who loved to answer unserious questions. Can math tell you how to order the optimal lunch ? Can a

The total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, 2026, will bring thousands of photographers to a narrow path of totality through eastern Greenland, western Iceland and