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The moon is a round, rocky body, but is it a planet? The answer, scientists say, is complicated.

Swimming goggles that that can genuinely improve your exercise performance.

A scorpion discovered in South America can spray venom out of its stinger and hit targets up to 35 centimetres away

From angry dolphins and snakes taking faking their deaths to the next level, to a frog who had just had enough. Take our quiz on the strangest animal news of 2024.

Collected from some of the best-known photography competitions around the world, here are the most captivating nature photos of 2024.

Researchers have found that stick insects keep evolving the same 20 body plans, from the "tree lobster'" to the "bark hugger" and the "large-headed stick."

Massive reductions in Antarctic sea ice in recent years has been correlated with more stormy days in the Southern Ocean, and could have implications for vital ocean currents.

On Christmas Eve, NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any human-made object ever -- a stunning technological feat that scientists liken to the historic Apollo moon landing in 1969.

The James Webb telescope has focused its attention on an oddball space rock lurking between Jupiter and Neptune. The unusual "centaur," named 2060 Chiron, has features of both comets and asteroids.

A research group led by Prof. Yao Baoli and Dr. Xu Xiaohao from Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed a full-gray optical trap in structured light, whi...

We have only one example of biology forming in the universe--life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do you look for alien life when you don't know what alien life might look like? These questions are...

The Celestron Inspire 100AZ will get you looking up

Some quantum fields that extend throughout all of space-time could be a rich resource of quantum entanglement that can be extracted forever

Mercedes-Benz is developing a new type of solar paint that could free EV owners from the perennial problem of range anxiety.

We have trillions of body clocks -- a central one in the brain and others in each cell of our body. Here's how they work with light to control our health.

An 1,800-year-old gold ring with a carving depicting Venus, a Roman goddess associated with victory, has been discovered in Brittany.

The ancient Egyptians celebrated the new year in a variety of ways, including having feasts, giving gifts, and exposing statues of gods to sunlight so they could be "regenerated."

Two separate theoretical studies published this year argued that time itself is bound up in the odd quantum property of entanglement, but deep mysteries remain

A new study finds that middle kids and kids from larger families are more agreeable, honest and humble than younger and older kids or kids from smaller families, but the results contradict other research on the topic.

How much do you know about the archaeology of early Christianity? Take our quiz to find out.

Today, the Denali Fault rips apart some of the North American plate, but it was once a place where tectonic plates came together.