Science

Astronomers have detected a new set of whiskers on the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy:...

Like many small organisms, fungi are often overlooked, but their planetary significance is outsize. Plants managed to leave water and...

All was hushed just before dawn when Debbie Gabriel double-parked at her usual spot on Lefferts Avenue, a neighborhood of...

Kilauea, the youngest and most active volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii, erupted early Wednesday morning, officials said, sending...

The world’s most endangered marine mammal, a small porpoise called the vaquita, is hanging onto existence and appears to be...

In East Asia, years of chronic air pollution is one reason that wearing face masks was common well before the...

Thousands of colossal southern right whales travel to the calm waters of Península Valdés off the coast of Argentina each...

In January 2018, a female crocodile in a Costa Rican zoo laid a clutch of eggs. That was peculiar: She’d...

When a bird sings, you may think you’re hearing music. But are the melodies it’s making really music? Or is what we’re...

The pharmaceutical company Merck on Tuesday sued the government over a federal law that empowers Medicare for the first time...