For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing ...

A bumpy snailfish, Andean mouse opossum and ancient sea cow were just some of the many species described in 2025.

Mars has never looked more like a planet built for hiding secrets. A cluster of eight vast, water-carved caves appears almost engineered to shield fragile chemistry, or even biology, from the brutal ...

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

"Throughout my life, any paranormal experience I've heard was generally easily explained through objective skepticism," ...

From public murals to museum walls, artists mobilized their practices to call out injustices, expose wrongdoing, and advocate ...

Scientists analysing dark energy say the universe’s expansion may be slowing, raising the possibility gravity could ...

The backstory: The law began as Senate Bill 53, authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, to ...

Nearly 12 years after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 vanished with 239 people on board, the search for answers to one of ...

The physical world shaped our vocabulary in ways we never noticed until those objects vanished, leaving behind phrases that ...