A strange “forbidden” planet spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope is turning planetary science on its head. TOI-5205 b, a Jupiter-sized world orbiting a small, cool star, has an atmosphere ...

Is consciousness a product of the brain, or could it be something more fundamental? This is one of the central questions addressed by Christof Koch, one of the most influential contemporary ...

A hidden feature of water, long submerged, has finally been brought to the surface. New experiments have revealed supercooled water’s critical point — a specific pressure and temperature at which two ...

To the untrained eye, it may seem that the iPad is just a very large iPhone. In the past, they both used the same operating system "iOS" and — again, to the untrained eye — seemed to be the same sort ...

Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the most powerful space telescope ever made. Astronomers now call them little red ...

Asia Kaiser, a bee researcher and ecology and evolutionary biology PhD candidate, is named social sciences category winner in the international Dance Your PhD contest sponsored by the journal Science ...

Michael Pollan's widely anticipated new book, A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness, brings his signature acumen and wit to one of science's essential mysteries. Along the way, he pursues ...

In the two and a half days since Donald Trump unleashed a new war in the Middle East, the President and his Administration have come up with an astonishing array of different, even contradictory, ...

The Blue Jackets are simmering over a dearth of power plays the past three games, and there are statistics to back them up. Alex, Knox, Xander and Jaxson Mick of Mt. Vernon, Ohio take photos with ...

"We can't quite explain yet why the nodules appear where they do," Tina Seeger, a planetary scientist at Rice University in Houston who is leading Curiosity's boxwork investigations, said in a ...

Scientists studying a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover have uncovered something tantalizing: the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. The compounds — decane, undecane, and ...