The most Earthlike planet yet has the conditions to support life, including liquid water, say astronomers who found the planet orbiting a star 20.5 light-years away.
New analysis of the near-Earth asteroid Itokawa shows evidence that surface materials on the low-gravity object not only stick around but also are sorted by periodic shaking.
An explosive image of a dozen stars' birth pangs marks the anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, 17 years after it was borne into space by the shuttle Discovery.
Wind and radiation from massive, superhot stars can blow away planet-forming materials around smaller stars within a ten-trillion-mile radius, a new study suggests.
Hundreds of venomous cottonmouth snakes thrive on the small, waterless island of Seahorse Key. A biologist thinks he knows the secret to the snakes' success.
What does it take to build a massive particle accelerator hundreds of feet below the Swiss-French border? Thousands of physicists, miles of magnets, and perhaps a bit of luck.
Infrared cameras recently captured an image of the Red Square Nebula, a rare cloud of dust and gas so symmetrical that a scientist deemed it "almost perfect."
The rhesus monkey genome, the third primate genome to be sequenced, will help advance understanding of primate evolution and what makes us distinctly human, scientists say.
Collagen extracted from a 68-million-year-old thighbone shows that some ancient tissues can escape fossilization and offers an unprecedented link between dinos and modern birds.
Blue forests? Orange meadows? NASA scientists may be able to determine the colors of extraterrestrial plants while studying distant planets, new research shows.
