The name comes from the Greek word for Sun, Helios. It was certainly an otherworldly element, not something with an obvious ...

G old has captivated humans for millennia, but it comes in many different forms out in the wild. Among the rarest and most ...

What they saw revealed that the beetles roll their dung balls along straight paths under a starlit sky but lose this ability ...

The light from Earendel has traveled to us for 13 billion years. It could be the furthest star we have ever seen, but a new ...

Using this platform, the researchers not only captured the first-ever real-time footage of implantation, but also discovered ...

The findings suggest the Sahara had an extra source of rain that kept part of it habitable until surprisingly recently.

D own beneath the ocean waves are all manner of secret surprises, from mysterious-looking new species to gentle seahorses floating in the current. One diver was lucky enough to capture a key moment as ...

If dark matter is less abundant but also larger, it could require a much more massive detector, such as a planet or a moon. In the new paper, William DeRocco, a Post-Doctoral Associate at the ...

This pushes back their ability to plan in advance and mentally map their surroundings 600,000 years earlier than thought.

However, because most known examples of Inca-era khipus come from graves that were looted before archaeologists had a chance ...

S tretching around 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) along western North America, the Tintina fault has long been assumed to be ...

However, the only person confirmed to be hit by a meteor strike is Ann Hodges, who was hit on her upper hip after a ...