Science

Even as the Biden administration, under pressure from environmentalists, hits pause on its approval of a major natural gas export terminal in the United States, it faces another big gas decision overseas.A...

What do you call a galaxy without stars?Earlier this month, radio astronomers announced that they had discovered the darkest galaxy ever not quite seen, a cloud of hydrogen gas resembling our own...

Japan became the fifth nation to land on the moon on Saturday, but its spacecraft ended up in an awkward position, with its engine nozzle pointed up toward space.By design, the Japanese...

Ingenuity, the little Mars helicopter that could, can’t anymore.At least one rotor broke during the robotic flying machine’s most recent flight last week, NASA officials announced on Thursday. Ingenuity remains in contact...

Naomi Feil was only 8 years old when she moved into what was then known as a home for the aged, where her parents worked. Living there until she left for college,...

Hello darkness, our old friend, we’ve come to stare at you again.At the center of Messier 87, a giant galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, is a darkness 24 billion miles across...

An investigation into nearly 1,700 aquifers across more than 40 countries found that groundwater levels in almost half have fallen since 2000. Only about 7 percent of the aquifers surveyed had groundwater...

Color is in the eye of the beholderEnter animal-vision videoHow a bird sees a rainbowHow a mouse sees a rainbowHow a bird sees a butterflyHow a honeybee sees a caterpillarExploring the world...

When a thresher shark attacks, it doesn’t lunge in teeth-first. Instead, it approaches a school of fish, lowers its head, flexes its body and thwaps its whiplike tail over its head. The...

In 2014, nine blue whales died after being trapped by ice near Newfoundland, Canada. Two of their carcasses washed ashore and began bloating as they decomposed, causing worries of an imminent explosion...