Star Trek actor William Shatner finally became a real space traveler on Blue Origin’s second crewed mission Wednesday, calling it the most profound experience of his...
A single bad El Niño can drive almost 6 million children into severe hunger, a new study has found. This is up to three times as...
Let’s be honest: in the Solar System, there really is no good place for humans that isn’t Earth. But that doesn’t mean all bad places were...
Even if humanity beats the odds and caps global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, seas will rise for centuries to come and swamp...
We now know, to within a tenth of a percent, how long a neutron can survive outside the atomic nucleus before decaying into a proton. This...
Physicists have taken the first ever image of a Wigner crystal – a strange honeycomb-pattern material inside another material, made entirely out of electrons. Hungarian physicist...
Galaxies are a bit like fingerprints, or snowflakes. There are many of them out there, and they can have a lot of characteristics in common, but...
Daily exposure to phthalates, a group of chemicals used in everything from plastic containers to makeup, may lead to approximately 100,000 deaths in older Americans annually,...
As our eyes on the sky grow ever more sensitive, we’re going to find more and more things we’ve never seen before. Such is the case...
Exactly how and when people settled in North America is a topic of much fascination for experts, and now a new analysis of ancient documents is...