Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists uncovered over 70 newly discovered species, including mammals, dinosaurs, insects, fish, and more—some discovered ...

If the pulsar is confirmed, it could enable more precise measurements of the space-time around the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole ...

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Reality feels solid, continuous, and objective, but modern physics tells a different story. At the deepest levels, particles ...

On a late night in the Philippines, zoologist Terry Gosliner slipped into the waters of a sandy harbor, on the hunt for photos of octopus and other marine creatures. But as he swept his flashlight ...

T o make good decisions on any question the public needs to be well-informed, something not so easily accomplished in America’s schools. That is a key point made by Michael Kent, a recently retired ...