Nature has imbued its mothers with many surprisingly strange ways to reproduce and care for their babies.Some moms, like ...

A gas giant 690 light-years from Earth forms mineral clouds on its cooler morning side every orbit, only to have them ...

While telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can detect the chemical fingerprints of distant atmospheres, ...

In the second season of “Sugar,” Colin Farrell’s character has to deal with life alone. At the end of the first season, it ...

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about where you live than about what consciousness really requires.

Octopuses, bees, and dogs all process information differently. Even within the narrow confines of one planet, evolution produced a wide range of nervous systems rather than a single design. A new ...

Wasp inside an electron microscope Common Hoverfly Parasitoid Wasps! Today we're looking at a wasp I found in my backyard. This little insect lays its eggs inside of other hosts (hoverflys), which ...

Late in Steven Spielberg’s new film, Disclosure Day, a former nun-to-be calls the abbess of the convent she left behind. The world is about to learn that aliens have been living on Earth for decades.

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations suggest that the two day-night boundary zones on the gas exoplanet WASP-121 b are chemically different from each other. On this ultra-hot exoplanet, dawn ...

JWST has revealed dramatic differences between the dawn and dusk regions of the scorching exoplanet WASP-121 b. Fierce winds appear to carry heat from the planet’s permanent dayside, making the ...

Astronomers have revealed distinct differences in atmospheric conditions between the morning and evening transition zones of the ultra-hot gas planet WASP-121 b, which separate day from night, ...

When people hear the word "bee," what comes to mind? Hornets, which are dangerous if they sting you. Paper wasps, which build nests under eaves. Or honeybees, which make honey. With reports of ...