Newly released images of Mars reveal a "smiley" salt deposit on the Red Planet's surface. A related study suggests that ...

A DNA analysis of 15 Rapa Nui individuals revealed that there was never a population collapse on Easter Island and that the inhabitants commingled with Native Americans.

Thorin — nicknamed after a dwarf in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" — is also called the "last Neanderthal" because he may have lived as recently as 42,000 years ago.

The Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbor, glows brightly in a new Hubble Space Telescope image with ...

Batteries used in smartphones or in EVs normally charge for 10 hours on their first cycle, but turbo-charging them to 100% ...

In a scientific first, researchers have captured astonishing video of young Japanese eels escaping after being swallowed by a ...

NASA's testing a solar sail system in space, and the spacecraft that brought the tech there has snapped a photo.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a pair of distant galaxies being twisted into a cosmic ...

Getting an accurate estimate of when someone died is a critical part of forensic investigations. In extremely cold conditions ...