Fascinating intersections between mythology and science captivate our collective imagination. Ancient narratives often mirror contemporary scientific theories and discoveries in surprising ways. Here, ...

The Carnarvon Flapjack Octopus is a small, soft-bodied deep-sea species that reaches about 4 centimeters across. A new ...

Why scientists are studying bird poop, the world’s fastest backflip and all about the microbes living in your sink. Plus, paleontologists at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh piece together ...

An “Einstein Cross” is a rarely seen cosmic configuration, in which the light from a distant galaxy is bent by the gravity of ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery spheres, ...

Unusual rocks discovered on Mars contain the most tantalising evidence yet of potential past life on the Red Planet. The ...

The newly discovered pulsar orbits its companion once every 19 hours, but instead of a smooth circle, the orbit is stretched into a long oval. Its unusual orbit makes the system very rare ...

The ostentatious spikes of a newly described ankylosaur fossil suggest that its armor evolved via sexual selection.