New research shows that microplastics have been contaminating some freshwater streams decades earlier than previously ...

Rocks from Greenland found on Iceland's west coast could link the late Roman Empire's fall to a spell of sudden climate ...

An experimental vaccine for acne could someday transform the way patients with the condition are treated, according to the ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to revisit a misunderstood black hole thought to be gulping ...

The Corryvreckan whirlpool is one of the largest whirlpools in the world, reaching speeds of 8.5 knots and producing a ...

Scientists in the U.K. have developed a new material that may allow them to grow teeth in the lab, which could provide an ...

Yellowstone is one of the world's largest volcanic systems. The volcano has blown big on three occasions in the last 2.1 million years — the most recent was 640,000 years ago and covered 2,900 square ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon yet another ghostly galaxy that appears to be devoid of dark matter, the elusive stuff that ...

The warming hole might be a sign that Atlantic Ocean currents are slowing down. This network of currents regulates Earth's ...

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's largest solar telescope, can see the sun in unprecedented detail. Here is ...

Researchers have discovered a never-before-seen species of "hell ant" that lived 113 million years ago, making it the oldest ...

Researchers may have discovered Mississippi's largest ever mosasaur after pulling a Cretaceous-aged fossil out of a riverbed ...