The Webb telescope found that a far-off little red dot is the oldest known black hole, shrouded by gas that could help explain the ruby color.

Sea silk, once spun from endangered clams, may make a comeback — thanks to discarded fibers from a farmed species. The find could sustainably revive a fading art.

A Kenyan site shows early hominids transported stone 13 kilometers for toolmaking as early as 2.6 million years ago.

Producing a male-specific protein in digestion-related neurons may have led to the evolution of an odd “romantic” barfing behavior in one species of fruit flies.

An analysis of tooth enamel from animals that roamed the western United States about 150 million years ago, including (from left) Allosaurus, Apatosaurus, a herd of Diplodocus and two Camptosaurus, ...

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In The Martians, journalist David Baron recounts scientific and public debate over purported intelligent life on the Red Planet.

The hypothesis could extend the search for extraterrestrial life to include frigid planets with thin atmospheres and underground water.

Maya Ajmera, President & CEO of Society for Science and Executive Publisher of Science News, chatted with Eric Sporkin. Sporkin is an alumnus of the 2007 International Science and Engineering Fair ...

Excavated implements suggest a Homo species arrived on Sulawesi over 1 million years ago, before a nearby island hosted hobbit ancestors.

Women face a small rise in fracture risk within 10 years of stopping therapy, suggesting the need for additional monitoring.

Sun-powered fliers could use photophoretic forces to hover in the mesosphere, gathering data from a region off limits to planes and balloons.