An unprecedented coral bleaching episode has spread to 84 percent of the world's reefs in an unfolding human-caused crisis that could kill off swathes of the essential ecosystems, scientists warned ...

Space exploration missions have revealed that polar vortices aren’t uncommon beyond Earth. They’ve been observed throughout ...

The researchers found strong evidence of a chemical called dimethyl sulfide (DMS) in the planet's atmosphere. On Earth, DMS is produced only by living organisms, so it appears to be a compelling sign ...

Where Is everybody? The answer to Fermi's famous paradox may be lurking closer than we expected... and it could involve ...

A new survey of distant galaxies undertaken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revealing new secrets of the "cosmic noon"—when galaxies in the young universe underwent something of an awkward ...

Finland successfully completed the first test of its encapsulation plant, which, if finished, will become the world’s first ...

Researchers document a multi-faceted global snapshot of the environmental aspects and trends surrounding single-use plastics in a review article. The researchers state that the largest area of ...

The grant supported Dr. Fiesler’s research on building A.I. literacy. She received no official explanation for why the grant ...

A planet 140 light-years from Earth is rapidly coming apart due to its close proximity to its star. The roasting planet is effectively evaporating away: It sheds an enormous amount of surface minerals ...

We were doing the typical planet vetting, and I happened to spot this signal that appeared very unusual.” An orbiting ...

Medical researchers Ewelina Mamcarz and Stephen Gottschalk detail the science behind the gene ...