On December 25, 2021, the largest and most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was launched into space ...

Dear Pandas, consider this our virtual group hug and thank-you note for another year of making the internet a weirder, more wonderful place. As we wrap up 2024, we're unleashing our ultimate ...

It seems like Mercury, sitting so close to the sun, should already be a dead planet. Scientists thought the humble hunk of rock that’s only slightly girthier than Earth’s moon would have been battered ...

A troubling revelation about colon cancer and a win for the ancient Babyonians make the list: New study is 'turning point' on schizophrenia: Scientists have made a finding being hailed as a "crucial ...

Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of your jokes. “I’ve heard them all. I know them all,” says Heidi Hammel, a ...

Space-time breakthroughs. Virgin births. A promising candidate for alien life. Science didn’t disappoint during our latest revolution around the sun. Scientists detected low-frequency gravitational ...

One of the most amazing discoveries about the Great Lakes is that there are so many discoveries to be made. The latest: sinkholes at the bottom of Lake Michigan. On Aug. 21, a team of scientists ...

I’ll wager that the event of 2023 that will change our lives the most in coming years is not the sighting of a Chinese spy balloon, the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, the fall of Kevin McCarthy’s ...