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NASA's Perseverance rover regularly images a Sherlock Holmes–themed maze to calibrate its chemical-hunting SHERLOC instrument.

Researchers have filmed a living Antarctic gonate squid in a world-first sighting deep in the ocean surrounding Antarctica.

A new image released by China's space agency offers the first glimpse at the Tianwen 2 spacecraft, which is en route to collect samples from...

Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed a Roman-era sarcophagus that depicts Dionysus beating Hercules in a drinking contest.

The quantum computer, called Starling, will use 200 logical qubits — and IBM plans to follow this up with a 2,000-logical-qubit machine in 2...

A recent satellite image captured a glowing river of lava flowing down the flank of Europe's largest active volcano as it spectacularly blew...

The recent discovery of copious amounts of iron trash on North Carolina's Hatteras Island may reveal the fate of a 16th-century "Lost Colony...

The summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, falls on June 20 this year in North America.

Researchers used robotic diving vehicles to study gold coins on the seafloor by the wreck of the Spanish galleon San José.

A new machine learning model shows that star-shaped brain cells may be responsible for the brain's memory capacity, and someday, it could in...

New images of a young star, 2MASSJ1612, could have captured the birth of a giant gas planet larger than Jupiter.

A new study by Apple has ignited controversy in the AI field by showing how reasoning models undergo 'complete accuracy collapse' when overl...

An osprey flying over Myrtle Beach dropped the small shark from a tree after being harassed by crows.

This gold-covered bronze object may depict a "divine" horse pulling the sun behind it.

Many animals in the tropics are colorful for a number of reasons, including some you might not expect.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has directly observed a powerful magnetic explosion in the sun's corona that could help us predict geomagnetic sto...

Learn how HIV spreads, how it affects the body and what treatments are available.

Turkey's minister of culture and tourism announced the discovery of a new tomb in an eighth-century-B.C. city that was the homeland of King...

The famous black hole M87 keeps surprising us. New research calculates its spin speed to be at 80% of the theoretical limit, with matter fal...

"Core season" for the Milky Way has arrived, with our galaxy visible all night as a band of light arching across the sky. Here's where, when...

New near-infrared observations by the James Webb Space Telescope highlight a tightly packed group of stars at the peculiar galaxy's center a...

Are some parts of an airplane safer than others?

Even the best batteries fall far short of animal metabolism for energy storage. Fueling robots with 'food' could narrow the gap.

A new study debates the complex ethical questions that must be considered if we're to terraform Mars and lays the blueprint for a potential...

Pacific spiny lumpsuckers are wee, coastal fish that look a bit like concerned strawberries, have a fluorescent glow and pack some serious b...