Cosmological data suggest unexpected masses for neutrinos, including the possibility of zero or negative mass.

"Primordial black holes do not live in the solar system. Rather, they’re streaming through the universe, doing their own thing. And the probability is, they’re going through the inner solar system at ...

Researchers have identified 12 ancestral plant species from an early Eocene fossil assemblage in Tasmania that once formed part of a giant, circumpolar forest.

In 1543, Copernicus boldly proposed the heliocentric model, asserting that the Earth revolved around the sun. Despite facing ...

Since 1988, 71% of all the world’s carbon emissions have been produced by just 100 companies. Their operations are largely to blame for the climate crisis we now face. A crisis that costs the world ...

Every winter, when sunlight hits at the right angle, visitors to Virginia's First Landing State Park are treated to a ...

The HEXAGON KH-9 reconnaissance satellites were the largest and last U.S. intelligence satellites to return photographic film ...

Traditionally, eclipse maps have been constructed from the assumption that the Moon is a perfect sphere and that all ...

Iron carried in clouds of Saharan dust blown across the Atlantic Ocean is increasingly available to tiny life forms the further it travels.

THE mystery of an “alien song” heard coming from the deepest point on Earth has finally been revealed. The Mariana Trench is one of the most mysterious places on Earth, measuring over ...

Microbes, after all, play enormously consequential roles in the world around us and within us—I should credit the trillions ...

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...