Scientists have long speculated that Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, is not alone. Now, thanks to ...

With the capital's reservoirs approaching historic lows, officials are turning to ancient engineering to conserve potable ...

Called osteoderms, the chain mail-like plates may have helped some species adapt to Australia’s harsh environment ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

A trio of the 17th-century Dutch painter’s works featuring women writing and receiving letters is on display at the recently ...

A visitor recently ate the banana from Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian," which was on view at the Center Pompidou-Metz. The ...

But T. rex was also the last of its meat-tearing family. The earliest tyrannosaurs evolved about 166 million years ago. In ...

Because of the moon’s position, Earth is rotating just over a millisecond faster than usual on a few days this summer ...

Scientists are experimenting with robotic rabbits in hopes of luring the destructive snakes out of hiding so they can be ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a tag the size of a grain of ...

As a young girl growing up in the 1960s, Patricia Matos-Puente wanted to be an astronaut. Her interest in space was sparked ...

An analysis of a roughly 180-million-year-old fossil fin reveals serrations and flexibility that might have served to dampen ...