A team of astronomers using data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey has modeled the hot gas in our local stellar neighborhood, ...

Liquid-filled rocks form when minerals trap fluids, but depending on their composition they can either be classed as enhydros ...

Well, it seems that for some people – and by “some people”, we mean “a bunch of physicists and mathematicians from the ...

A cleaning station for turtles in the waters off the US Virgin Islands recently turned up three fish species that weren’t ...

V iewed from space, the western edge of the Sahara Desert looks like another world. Its abundance of red-tinged sand turns ...

The technique, discovered by an amateur but now verified by scientists, could play a big part in saving the endangered ...

According to the available evidence, the original Altai Denisovans began to fragment into multiple lineages some time between 409,000 and 222,000 years ago. The oldest of these populations appears to ...

T here are some seriously strange lifeforms lurking in the depths of our oceans – ghost sharks and upside-down isopods, ...

Gravity waves in the atmosphere are a common phenomenon. NASA released a beautiful image of waves forming around an island two years ago, for example. They are also not exclusively an Earthly ...

The latest test flight was piloted by Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg, a graduate of the United States Naval Test Pilot School. Along with breaking the plane’s speed record, his flight also reached new ...