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NASA's Curiosity Rover has discovered long carbon chains on Mars. On Earth, molecules like these are overwhelmingly produced by biological processes.

France's research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

On March 12, 2025, Hera -- ESA's first Space Safety mission -- came to within 5,000 km of the surface of Mars and 1,000 km of Deimos.

A groundbreaking new study provides the first consistent global picture of glacier decline since 2000, revealing that glaciers across the world have lost a whopping 5% of their volume since then.

A telescope at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea has captured the highest-energy neutrino known yet. It proves such energies are possible! The post Undersea telescope snags highest-energy neutrino yet observed first appeared on EarthSky.

Excavation of a Roman-era cemetery in France yielded nearly two dozen lead tablets inscribed in Latin and Gaulish.

Astronomers using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a state-of-the-art instrument mounted on NSF's Nicholas U. Mayall 4-m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, have mapped how nearly 6 million galaxies cluster across 11 billion years of cosmic history.

It's Election Day in the United States. Across the nation, millions of ballots are being cast. But what would happen if the rules of our electoral system were changed? Certain states are about to find out. This year, several places have alternative voting systems up for consideration on their ballots, and those systems could set an example for voting reform throughout the rest of the country. Short Wave producer…

Small settlements scattered throughout the region show signs of trade, fortification.

Evidence pointed towards a poet whose body had been missing since 1758.

Linguists have long known that sign languages are as grammatically and logically sophisticated as spoken languages—and also make greater use of "iconicity," the property by which some words refer to things by resembling them. For instance, the sound of an English "bang" iconically resembles a sharp noise, and a meow resembles the crying sound of a cat.

A new study supports the theory that the coronavirus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic originated from Hunan Seafood Wholesale wet market in Wuhan, China.

A study on the origin of Covid-19 provided new evidence on Thursday supporting the theory that humans first caught the virus from infected animals at a Chinese market in late 2019.Nearly five years after Covid first emerged, the international community has not been able to determine with certainty e...

Researchers have developed a tool that provides new insights into cause-and-effect relationships between cells and how these change over time.

The secrets of black holes and dark matter could lie before the Big Bang, a new study of "bouncing" cosmology hints.

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? Well, quite a few European governments, it seems.

Researchers have found the biggest black hole in our solar system. The black hole is located 2,000 light years from Earth.

Astronomers identified the largest stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way, with a mass 33 times that of the Sun, according to a study published on Tuesday.

Astronomers have discovered a large stellar mass black hole that weighs 33 times the mass of the sun and is located just 2,000 light-years away.

Astronomers have detected a black hole positioned roughly 2,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Aquila. It was identified through the Gaia mission.