The word "nemotia" is a neologism, a newly coined term that in this case, describes the sense of overwhelmingness and ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will soon leave our solar system, never to return, but the observations of the comet will live on in NASA’s public data archives. More than a dozen NASA science ...

Between May 2023 and January 2024, a global network of gravitational-wave detectors picked up 128 new cosmic signals, more than doubling the entire catalog built across the previous decade. The ...

New research from the Shorebird Science and Conservation Collective at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation ...

Researchers used data recorded by Juno in 2021 and 2022, after NASA granted an extension to the spacecraft’s operations upon completing a five-year science campaign at Jupiter. Juno remains in good ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a video of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, constructed from images taken by a probe headed to gas giant Jupiter. Meanwhile, the Search for Extraterrestrial ...

The rough play idea is also typically observed in juvenile whales to prepare them for adult competition for courtship and ...

Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) really do use their massive heads to deliberately push and strike objects. A team of scientists using a drone filmed sperm whales headbutting each other during ...

New research by Smithsonian scientists suggests that preferences for certain sounds might be evolutionarily conserved ...

The iNaturalist cellphone app not only helps users identify plant, animal and insect species; it also provides invaluable data to scientists studying biodiversity, species decline, and habitat loss.

Astronomers have uncovered surprising evidence of a thick atmosphere surrounding TOI-561 b, a scorching, fast-orbiting rocky planet once thought too extreme to hold onto any gas. Using NASA’s James ...

The transition from mythology to rational, scientific thought in Ancient Greece set the foundation for Western civilization.