A safety net of balloon-mounted sensors listening for satellites and cell towers could save lives if an airplane's GPS ...

Researchers have made great strides to prevent deaths from fatal diseases, but the cures for some of them still elude us.

Black Friday and the Christmas sales are both great times to save money on the best science gifts, but is one better than the ...

Chinese scientists claim they have made a converging energy beam weapon — but did they really, or have they been watching too ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of NGC 4694, a galaxy that possesses unusual properties that complicate its ...

This bright green sea creature contains a toxic pigment that protects it from predators, kills bacteria and determines the ...

On Earth, the magnetic field of our planet points a compass north, but in space, things are a bit more complicated.

Miles of air cover Earth. The boundary between Earth's atmosphere and outer space, the Kármán line, is about 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the planet's surface. However, about 99.9% of the mass of ...

Brain scans of modern listeners suggest that Aztec whistles sound like human screams, which may have prepared sacrifice ...

Wolves in Ethiopia that lick the flowers of the "red hot poker" flowers are the first known large carnivores to eat nectar.

The Indian Ocean "gravity hole" is a region where Earth's mass is reduced, leading to weak gravitational pull, ...

A new study reveals that the asteroid 2024 PT5, which has been orbiting Earth for 2 months, may have a "lunar origin." ...