Very little is known about the identities of these child mummies.

The discovery of four shark fossils with bite marks shows that ancient sharks attacked or scavenged each other.

A type of antibiotic-resistant bacteria was on the skin of hedgehogs long before humans started using the antibiotics that scientists thought created these superbugs.

The Periodic Table, first created by Dmitri Mendeleev, organizes all of the known elements in an informative array.

A wildlife photographer in Israel spotted a murmuration of starlings flying in an incredible bent spoon shape. How do the birds do it?

A new video of solar streamers evokes the streaking stars seen during spacecraft hyperdrives in “Star Wars.”

NASA’s Earth Observatory has released a photo of a crescent moon above an orbital sunset taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station.

The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully deployed all five layers of its tennis-court-sized sunshield.

Here’s 10 discoveries we made about human evolution over the last year.

The three-body problem, which has plagued science since the days of Isaac Newton, is closer to being solved, scientists say.