TOI-561b, a rocky exoplanet so close to its parent star that its year lasts just over 10 hours, may be wrapped in a thick, ...

A partial dinosaur skeleton unearthed in a Surrey brickworks in 2001 has been identified as a previously unknown genus and ...

A pale-yellow fungus up to 50 cm (20 inches) tall, growing from the roots of dying trees in China’s Yunnan province, belongs ...

Concornis lacustris, a small enantiornithine bird that lived alongside dinosaurs more than 100 million years ago, has ...

Paleontologists have described what they say is the first fully marine species of a stem amphibian, Gerrothorax maritimus, ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have found that the water ice in the interstellar comet ...

Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), the virus that causes cold sores, reshapes microglia in a narrow region of the brainstem ...

The enrichment in metals (any element heavier than hydrogen and helium, including carbon, oxygen, iron and gold) likely came ...

A single bone from southern Brazil indicates that herrerasaurids, among the first large meat-eating dinosaurs, persisted after the fauna around them changed.

Researchers have produced the most comprehensive portrait to date of the ‘average’ human genome, drawn from the whole-genome ...

VLSS J0318.9+5755, a strange, musical-note-shaped radio source hiding behind the Milky Way’s dusty disk, has turned out to be ...