A group of leading global virologists has published a comprehensive analysis advocating for a coordinated multi-government ...

Center at UCSF is pioneering the development of potent drug candidates aimed at preventing future coronavirus pandemics.

A new space telescope is mapping the sky in 102 colors — and it may just rewrite our understanding of the universe.

Spotted thanks to a fleeting light distortion in 2011, a mysterious duo — a tiny star and its hefty companion — has turned ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered Zhúlóng, the most distant known spiral galaxy, existing just ...

Super-Earths, larger planets similar to Earth, are far more common across the universe than scientists previously believed, ...

A groundbreaking study has shown that pig hearts could keep critically ill babies alive while they wait for a transplant.

At the Paranal Observatory, the UT4 telescope doesn't just stargaze—it actively creates its own stars using powerful lasers ...

A powerful cosmic event from 2004—a gamma-ray burst from a magnetar 30,000 light-years away—has just been revealed as a major ...

The ancestors of today’s crocodylians survived two mass extinction events. A new study has revealed a key factor behind their ...

Scientists have found that receiving a COVID-19 booster shot in the same arm as the initial dose triggers a faster and more effective immune response, thanks to primed macrophages in nearby lymph ...

Juno’s latest discoveries have pulled back the veil on Jupiter’s harsh atmosphere and the fiery volcanic world of Io. The spacecraft detected warm lava flows beneath Io’s crust and uncovered how heat ...