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A previously unknown Indigenous population lived in central Argentina for nearly 8,500 years, a new genetic study finds.
Some of the earliest images ever taken in the wake of massive star’s death give astronomers important clues about what triggers a supernova.
A child-friendly brain imaging technique is just one way neuroscientist Cat Camacho investigates how children learn to process emotions.
Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.
Home insurance is getting less affordable, and less available, as insurers raise prices and pull back from areas with extreme weather. That’s forcing families across
The Goddard Space Center is one NASA’s crown jewels of science. But in recent months, staff say they’ve been in the White House’s crosshairs, subjected
Researchers thought that Axial Seamount might erupt in 2025, but recent data suggest the underwater volcano could take a bit longer to blow its top.
In a small blow to the search for extraterrestrial life, a nearby star shot out a strong enough coronal mass ejection to strip away the
Three astronauts remain stuck on China’s Tiangong space station after errant debris struck their return capsule last week. But their return vessel has already arrived
Some “clicks” made by sperm whales may actually be “clacks,” but marine biologists debate what, if anything, that means.
After a decades-long hiatus, new world screwworm populations have surged in Central America and Mexico — and are inching northward.
During its close flyby of Jupiter’s moon Io on December 30, 2023, NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured some of the most detailed imagery ever of Io’s
In the mid-19th century, the Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau — who had been designing and conducting scientific experiments since he was a child — submerged
Experiments show that a time crystal based on magnons can interact with mechanical waves without being destroyed.
