The Ophel excavations at the foot of the southern wall of the Temple Mount, conducted by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Institute of Archaeo...
Scientists have detected a burst of radio waves from six billion light years away, one of a handful they've discovered in the past decade -- and t...
A new study finds fisher education can help protect vulnerable shark populations. The research, led by University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of M...
As world leaders prepare to gather in France for the 2015 United Nations Conference on Climate Change next week, global warming -- and how to stop it ...
The world-famous Australian reef is providing an effective barrier against landslide-induced tsunamis, new research shows. What has developed into the...
Mars is blanketed by a thin, mostly carbon dioxide atmosphere--one that is far too thin to prevent large amounts of water on the surface of the planet...
VY Canis Majoris is a stellar goliath, a red hypergiant, one of the largest known stars in the Milky Way. It is 30-40 times the mass of the Sun and 30...
Migration between different communities of bacteria is the key to the type of gene transfer that can lead to the spread of traits such as antibiotic r...
The intensity of earth's magnetic field has been weakening in the last couple of hundred years, leading some scientists to think that its polarity...
Mars' largest moon, Phobos, is slowly falling toward the planet, but rather than smash into the surface, it likely will be shredded and the pieces...