Asteroid impacts with global consequences are vastly rarer, especially compared to the frequency with which they appear in ...

The challenge for successful public art is that it needs to stay interesting over the long haul. Monuments to civic heroes ...

A comet from another star system is putting on a show that looks uncannily like a heartbeat, with bright jets of gas and dust switching on and off in a steady rhythm. New NASA images of Comet 3I/ATLAS ...

Alzheimer’s disease has long been the nightmare diagnosis that medicine could slow at best, not stop. Now a wave of ...

In Mount Airy, you can visit the World’s Largest Open-Face Granite Quarry, where an observation deck lets you peer into the massive excavation that’s provided stone for countless buildings and ...

Background Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) arises from complex interactions among diet, host and gut microbiome. Although diet influences intestinal inflammation, the microbial and metabolic pathways ...

After combing through NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of ...

The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by ...

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...

This cloud is a window into the dark Universe,” study co-author and Space Telescope Science Institute (STCScl) team member ...

Named “Cloud-9,” the discovery is a new type of celestial object known as a RELHIC, making it unlike anything scientists have ...

Three types of looming-selective neurons have been found in the nucleus rotundus of pigeons, each computing a different optical variable related to image expansion of objects approaching on a direct ...