This week, marvel at giant tube worms living beneath hot springs on the ocean floor, watch SpaceX catch a rocket booster, ...

What type of life might Europa harbor ... For extra oomph, the spacecraft will swing past Mars early next year and then Earth ...

Scientists have found that after the asteroid wiped out many plants, ants started farming fungi to help them survive and get ...

Recently published research looks at the possibility that rainwater played a crucial role in stabilizing early cells, paving ...

For a long time, scientists have debated what caused the dinosaurs to die out 66 million years ago. Was it a huge asteroid or ...

The sun has reached its "solar maximum period," which is a state of heightened activity in its 11-year solar cycle. It's ...

Fusion energy has the potential to be an effective clean energy source, as its reactions generate incredibly large amounts of energy. Fusion reactors aim to reproduce on Earth what happens in the cor ...

Trees are the most abundant natural resource living on Earth’s land masses. North Carolina (NC) State University scientists and engineers are making headway in using them as sustainable, ...

Specific molecular property of lignin in trees determines difficulty of using microbial fermentation to turn trees and other plants into industrial chemicals.

The 550-million-year-old Quaestio simpsonorum is the first fossil to show a definitive left-right asymmetry, an important ...

Typically, as the days get colder and shorter during autumn, leaves are exposed to less sunlight. This slows down the ...

Researchers have wondered how an alligator-size arthropod lived more than 300 million years ago. The discovery of an intact ...