Professor Alice Roberts reveals the natural history of the most famous of ice age animals – the woolly mammoth. Mammoths have transfixed humans since the depths of the last ice age, when their herds ...

This 2022 satellite photo shows the summit of "one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes," Mount Vesuvius, peering up ...

Individual cells in the brain light up for specific ideas. These concept neurons, once known as “Jennifer Aniston cells,” ...

FLETCHER, N.C. — (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he was considering "getting rid of" the Federal Emergency ...

Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, with identification number H335H ( ...

Speaking of wildlife, Singletary Lake State Park is a veritable Noah’s Ark of critters. Birdwatchers, prepare to have your ...

Moving at roughly 20,505 miles per hour along the distant world's equator, it’s the fastest known jet stream that wraps ...

Last week at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in National Harbor, Maryland, astronomers presented some of their most recent and exciting finds from the James Webb Space ...

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced Tuesday that the "Doomsday Clock" is now set to 89 seconds to midnight.

The recent burst, called FRB 20240209A, throws that theory into question. Now, astronomers must consider that not all fast radio bursts come from younger galaxies and stars. The powerful burst was ...

The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...

Harvard University-affiliated astronomers announced the discovery of a new asteroid zooming precariously close to Earth — only to learn it was actually a Tesla sports car launched by Elon Musk ...