Science

Is the asteroid Psyche really a hunk of mostly metal? Is the object, which is nearly as wide as Massachusetts, the core of a baby planet whose rocky outer layers were knocked...

Este fin de semana, millones de personas van a deleitarse con la maravilla celeste más reciente: un eclipse solar anular que surcará los cielos del hemisferio occidental.El eclipse “anillo de fuego” comenzará...

From deep within a papyrus scroll that has not been read in almost 2,000 years and would crumble to pieces if unrolled, researchers have retrieved a handful of letters and a single...

This weekend, millions of people will feast their eyes on the latest celestial marvel: an annular solar eclipse gracing the skies of the Western Hemisphere.The “ring of fire” eclipse will begin in...

Stone Age-cartoon enthusiasts will recall that Fred Flintstone polished off racks of brontosaurus ribs and that Wilma Flintstone swanned around in a Siberian mastodon fur coat. As it turns out, the Neanderthals...

A first glimpse of the jackpot from a seven-year mission to bring back bits of an asteroid was unveiled on Wednesday.NASA officials in Houston displayed images of salt-and-pepper chunks of rock and...

More debris and presumed human remains have been recovered from the Titan submersible, the U.S. Coast Guard said, months after the vessel imploded, killing five people as they were descending into the...

The bodies of the dead drift to the bottom of the ocean, where the bottom dwellers make use of them. They make temporary reefs from the bones of modern whales, and they...

Some male frogs cannot take a hint. Come spring, they pile onto potential mates in such a determined frenzy that the females may drown.That’s why the females have developed tricks for getting...

Scientists have used the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR to create chickens that have some resistance to avian influenza, according to a new study that was published in the journal Nature Communications...