The impact crater was formed in 2024 when an object the size of a multistory building crashed into our lunar companion. The resulting divot is about 728 feet wide and 141 feet deep
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The massive bovines, each maneuvered by three puppeteers, will roam through Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn
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The new instrument, called TEMPO, captures hourly snapshots of the pollutants swirling in the daytime atmosphere over North America—“chemical weather” reports that are helpful to public health researchers and government officials
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In the first century B.C.E., Vitruvius wrote that the Acropolis’ largest temple was horizontally bowed so that it didn't seem to sag, and that explanation persisted for millennia. New research suggests a different reason
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A tooth analysis hints that the fearsome predator ran at a toasty 97 degrees Fahrenheit. Maintaining that internal temperature may have allowed it to inhabit a range stretching from modern-day Alaska to Mexico during the Cretaceous period
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A new analysis of teeth and parchment suggests that the devastating sheep pox virus has been infecting livestock for 3,700 years
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Earth has changed dramatically since the Age of Dinosaurs, from its climate to geography and animal life
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Observed last year off the coast of Queensland, Australia, this event marks the first documentation of a stillbirth in the species, providing a rare glimpse at how the highly social animals respond to death
Much has changed since the publication debuted on September 18, 1851. What hasn't changed, staff members say, is the paper's mission
Our brains and their associated diseases are notoriously hard to study. So researchers developed an animal model with a cortex—the brain’s outer layer—grown from human-derived cells
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