Category: Science

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy cluster MACS0329-0211.

In 1992, mathematicians famously proved that seven “riffle shuffles” — the kind where a player splits a deck of cards into two piles, then uses

It’s just a matter of time before Sporothrix brasiliensis reaches the U.S. a CDC expert says.

Past super El Niños have brought bad flooding, deadly fires and disease outbreaks. Climate experts already expect “shockingly high” temps this winter.

Archaeologists have discovered a second cannonball from the 1836 Battle of the Alamo, and now they have one from each side.

Physicists have found that splitting a photon would lead to a complex state that may change the way we think of particles.

The oldest known evidence of the plague killing people has been found in Siberia, and it carried a gene that may have made it particularly

A woman could no longer recognize her father’s face and had trouble holding the details of faces in her mind’s eye.

Today (June 17), the moon will pass between Earth and Venus, causing the hellish planet to temporarily disappear from the daytime sky. Here’s what it

A 2021 astronaut photo shows the surprising similarities between Mount Sundoro and Mount Sumbing, which lie at the heart of Java, Indonesia.

The San Andreas fault and a neighboring fault in Southern California have reached their highest levels of tectonic stress in 1,000 years, and a rupture

The first-ever photos of a Cozumel fox prove that the mysterious island predator is still alive in Mexico but in dire need of conservation, according

A blurry photo captured by the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia shows Artemis II’s Orion capsule circling the moon more than 200,000 miles away

Viking 1 kicked off the search for Martian life 50 years ago. Now NASA’s shifting priorities are putting the quest in limbo.