The new baryon “Xi-cc-plus” decays into other particles almost instantly, but its existence could paint a clearer picture on ...

Researchers identified 24 new creatures and an entire superfamily of species in the Pacific, all while NOAA moves to ...

For decades, birdwatchers in Japan thought they were looking at the same little green songbird flitting through mountain forests on two far‑flung island chains. It took high‑tech DNA tests and ...

The latest clues hint at where pterosaurs — the first vertebrates to fly — came from, how they evolved, what they ate and more.

Scientists discovered Doolysaurus, a baby dinosaur from Korea revealed through CT scanning. The fossil shows a small, likely ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A computer model helped isolate a “pinball state” where matter switches back and forth between states. Scientists studied a specific setup of quantum ...

Gas giant Saturn has significantly extended its "who has the most moons in the Solar System" competition, with 11 more moons ...

A group of scientists recently announced that they had discovered a new species of dinosaur, Spinosaurus mirabilis, in the ...

Deep inside a cave, scientists uncovered fossils from 16 species, including a newfound kākāpō ancestor that may have been ...

Even as some scientists search for signs of life beyond Earth, other researchers have been discovering new species on our own humble planet faster than ever before. From high up in the mountains to ...

A robot named Adam was the first of its kind to do science. Adam mimicked a biologist. After coming up with questions to ask about yeast, the machine tested those questions inside a robotic laboratory ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A recent analysis hosted at the University of Arizona has researchers arguing ...