Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

A new study shows that black holes consume gas which creates an outburst that cools nearby gas for the black hole to consume ...

When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

Experts from the global Earth science community have pieced together what happened during the massive Sikkim flood to try to help others prepare for similar disasters.

Medical research depends on government money -- even a day's delay in the intricate funding process throws science off-kilter ...

Depressed drinkers experience alcohol’s pleasure and stimulation, challenging beliefs about self-medication and addiction.

Earth exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming above preindustrial times, a threshold beyond which wildfires, droughts, floods ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Science dioramas of yesteryear can highlight the biases of the time. Exhibit experts are reimagining, annotating — and sometimes mothballing — the scenes.

In the early days of the second Trump administration, a directive to pause all public communication from the Department of ...

Clarity is scarce right now, but stable funding is vital to sustaining important research in America, writes Aliasger K. Salem.

Trump Administration's Embrace of Decentralized Science Sparks Debate As of January 29, 2025, President Donald Trump has ...