New simulations reveal that there is an extremely small chance that the "city-killer" asteroid Apophis could be nudged onto a ...

Thorin — nicknamed after a dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" — is also called the "last Neanderthal" because he may ...

If Atlantic Ocean currents collapse due to melting ice sheets, researchers predict there will be huge shifts in tropical ...

A DNA analysis of 15 Rapa Nui individuals revealed that there was never a population collapse on Easter Island and that the ...

Wild gorillas eat the same tree bark used by traditional healers, which can inhibit the growth of E. coli in petri dishes, ...

In a scientific first, researchers have captured astonishing video of young Japanese eels escaping after being swallowed by a ...

Three newfound thylacine relatives recently unearthed in Australia suggest that marsupial predators were more widespread in ...

Batteries used in smartphones or in EVs normally charge for 10 hours on their first cycle, but turbo-charging them to 100% ...

Newly released images of Mars reveal a "smiley" salt deposit on the Red Planet's surface. A related study suggests that ...

Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the sky, may have a secret sunlike companion that drives the star’s mysterious ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbor, glows brightly in a new Hubble Space Telescope image with ...

Japan's new state-of-the-art supercomputer, which is due to cost more than $750 million to build, is set to turn on by 2030.