The same region on the sun that’s responsible for this week’s stunning auroral display just erupted in another powerful solar flare early on Friday morning ...

The Shenzhou 20 spacecraft was too damaged to bring its crew home from China’s Tiangong space station. Those astronauts have now returned via the Shenzhou 21 craft, leaving its crew without a return r ...

The oldest RNA ever reported until now came from a 14,300-year-old “wolf” puppy frozen in permafrost. But when Mármol-Sánchez ...

More about the shapes that can be made with complex dominoes ...

Aimee Lucido makes crosswords part-time for several outlets and writes trivia full-time for Bloomberg's news quiz, Pointed. She is also the author of several books for kids, including Emmy in the Key ...

City-dwelling raccoons seem to be evolving a shorter snout—a telltale feature of our pets and other domesticated animals ...

Cities’ steep terrain can discourage cycling. But the study showed that climate—even frosty winters, scorching summers and ...

Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...

A trove of e-mails from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was released by a congressional committee on Wednesday For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is ...

A trove of e-mails from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was released by a congressional committee on Wednesday ...

Blue Origin successfully launched — and partially landed — the company’s New Glenn rocket Thursday, marking a major step ...

Nearly two million U.S. turkeys have died from bird flu in recent months. An agricultural economist explains what ongoing ...