Category: Science

The Calabash Nebula, pictured here — which has the technical name OH 231.8+04.2 — is a spectacular example of the death of a low-mass star

We’re used to thinking of the brain as an electric organ. The rest of the body? Not so much. But it would be a mistake

Stone Age people in Macedonia created goddess figurines whose bottom half was a house.

Paleontologists Susannah Maidment and Chinzorig Tsogtbaatar share details about some of the cool dinosaurs discovered last year.

A burial mound in Turkey may have held the remains of a member of King Midas’s family. But not all experts are convinced.

A strange, sandwich-shaped object is giving astronomers a rare view of the chaotic birthplaces of planets.

Webb’s image of the enormous stellar jet in Sh2-284 provides evidence that protostellar jets scale with the mass of their parent stars—the more massive the

The oldest river predates the dinosaurs. But how do we know this?

A new study reveals that nerve cells receive periodic infusions of mitochondria from neighboring cells — and this may point to a new way of

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

The hydrochloric acid in your stomach can burn through metal — so why doesn’t it burn through your stomach?

Scientists drilled to the bottom of Greenland’s 1,600-foot deep Prudhoe Dome and found it disappeared in the early Holocene, when temperatures were close to what

A new DNA analysis of the mummies of historical Indigenous Yakuts reveals resistance to 17th-century Russian conquest.

Images depicting NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket are projected onto the Washington Monument as part of an event to kick off the nation’s 250th