The Cold Moon, the 12th and final full moon of 2025, rose on Thursday (Dec. 4) but will still appear bright and full on Friday (Dec. 5)
Remains of what was likely a funeral feast were discovered in a 4,000-year-old jug in Africa.
A lavish tomb of a noblewoman discovered in ancient Greece includes a mysterious symbol of lost power.
A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti.
The snakes stayed large and thrived even when cooling temperatures and shrinking habitats killed off other giant reptiles millions of years ago.
New James Webb telescope observations of the 'super-puff' planet WASP-107b show that the exoplanet's runaway atmosphere is frantically escaping into space.
In an unusual case, a woman developed a parasitic infection in her lungs, when more typically, the parasite stays just under the skin.
People who played the “Prisoner’s Dilemma” were less likely to cooperate when the other player was a male human or AI, and exploited female players.
A new analysis of July temperatures in Death Valley between 1923 and 2024 suggests the world record near-surface air temperature of 134 F measured in July 1913 may be erroneous.
Huge "regreening" efforts in China over the past few decades have activated the country's water cycle and moved water in ways that scientists are just now starting to understand.
Ancient genomes from southern Africa show that people evolved in isolation for upward of 100,000 years.
People buried in "hanging coffins" thousands of years ago in China and Southeast Asia have finally been identified through DNA research.
A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how galaxies form.
A new device cuts down the time it takes to harvest water from the atmosphere from days to minutes, MIT researchers say.
Scientists modeled Europe's future if a key Atlantic current were to collapse and found that the continent faces a much drier future.