Category: Science

Astronomers have discovered the brightest and most distant "megamaser" to date. The cosmic energy beam is shooting toward Earth from 8 billion light-years away and was spotted thanks to a…

Scientists have described Tanyka amnicola, a newly identified species of prehistoric creature that lived 275 million years ago and had a bizarre twisted jaw with sideways-facing teeth.

A new study suggests that "little red dots" spied by the James Webb telescope could be the universe's short-lived first generation of gigantic stars, challenging an existing theory.

A 2023 satellite photo highlights the point where a trio of rivers converges in Guyana. One of the waterways has been significantly altered by mining waste, creating a striking color…

A new NASA analysis concludes that it is "reasonable to hypothesize" that living things could have formed the odd organic molecules discovered on Mars.

Scientists saw a quark plowing through primordial plasma for the first time, offering a rare look at the first moments after the Big Bang