A new study reveals the hidden mechanism a common gut bacterium uses to damage the colon, solving a mystery that has puzzled scientists for years.

We may be more in the dark about dark matter than previously thought, according to a new analysis of distant galaxy clusters. Yale astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan, a leading theorist on the nature of black holes and dark matter, says new observational dat…

The image was captured on May 14 as the asteroid-bound spacecraft approaches Mars could be mistaken for an eclipse.

A brainless plant appears to count light like a tiny living machine, and the strange discovery may rewrite what scientists thought plants could do.

Scientists have discovered a galaxy as it was 13 billion years ago, 800 million years after the Big Bang. It contains possible evidence of the universe's first stars and is one of the most chemically primitive galaxies observed to date.

A mathematical method borrowed from topology can reveal structural properties of visual art that correspond to how people perceive and respond to them, according to a new study published in PLOS Computational Biology by Jacek Rogala of the University of Warsa…

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later human species, including Homo sapiens.

Flight 12 is scheduled to lift off on Tuesday evening (May 19).

NASA’s Perseverance rover captured a new animated selfie on Mars in the ‘Wild West,’ the farthest west it has traveled since landing on the planet in 2021...