On July 5, 2026, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft completed the first asteroid encounter of its ...
People who naturally stay up late may be more prone to obesity and poorer metabolic health in part because they consume more ...
On July 2, 2026, the Tianwen-2 probe closed to within 20 km (12.4 miles) of the small near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3, one of only seven Earth quasi-satellites identified to date, kicking off a science ...
A major challenge in the study of human prehistory is linking cultural artifacts in the archaeological record to the human ...
NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered the most extensive evidence yet of complex organic molecules on Mars, detecting ...
A nearly complete skull unearthed decades ago in Arizona has given paleontologists their clearest look yet at Adelphailurus ...
New research from the University of Bristol suggests that pterosaurs -- the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight -- ...
Paleontologists working in Brazil have identified a previously unknown species of archosauriform that lived about 240 million ...
Named Panthera pardus burgtonnae, the newly-identified leopard subspecies roamed Europe during the Eemian interglacial period ...
In a new animal study published in the journal Cell Metabolism, scientists found that adding a precise amount of a single ...
A large review of clinical trials published this week in the journal PAIN suggests that melatonin — the over-the-counter sleep supplement taken by millions of people — may offer meaningful relief for ...