Astronomers have found a planet around Barnard’s star, the closest single star to the Sun. It is the fourth closest star ...

Schubarth and co-conspirators then went even further, forging veterinary certificates in order to get the illegal hybrids out ...

The tangent cylinder is an imaginary structure that runs parallel to the axis around which Earth spins, and touches the ...

D oes it get any more Indiana Jones than a jewel that can glow? Such a piece of jewelry has been made possible thanks to ...

While seeing it is pretty cool in itself (who doesn't like to see an actual space station with their own eyes), there is an ...

W hat can an ancient gnarly log tell us about safeguarding the future? According to a new analysis of one 3,775-year-old ...

The release of the tournament bracket for this year’s Fat Bear Week has been delayed after a fight between two of Katmai ...

There's a limit to how big stars can get, but when we try to calculate what it is, some come along and break that maximum.

Among other things, success could provide insight into why modern recent ice ages were so much longer and colder than two ...

In the new study, scientists took a microsphere (a tiny ball) of silicon oxide (SiO 2) and suspended it using beams of light. This vibrated the ball, giving it an internal sound like a very ...

I n 1804, the world population finally reached 1 billion. Over the next 218 years, the gaps between reaching the next billion ...

Chroming is the act of inhaling toxic fumes from household items – think nail polish, aerosol deodorant, and markers. When ...