The Abstract

“We had promised that gravitational waves would open a new window into the universe, and that has materialized,” one researcher said.”

Iberian harvester ant queens clone males of a different species in a never-before-seen case of reproduction and domestication.

Glaciers in Central Asia have remained intact even as other parts of the world have seen rapid glacial loss. A new study shows that may be changing.

The world’s best solar telescope snapped unprecedented shots of a solar flare, revealing new details of these mysterious explosions.

For years, researchers have puzzled over how two ingredients for life first linked up on early Earth. Now, they’ve found the “missing link,” and demonstrated this reaction in the lab.

Scientists filmed a bat family in their roost for months, capturing never-before-seen (and very cute) behaviors.

In addition to Planet Nine, the solar system may also contain a closer, smaller world that could be spotted soon, according to a new preprint study.

A 500-year-old human hair in a rare khipu challenges the long-held idea that only elite men created these knotted records in the Inka empire.

Long before modern supply chains, ancient hominins were moving stone across long distances, potentially reshaping what we know about our evolutionary roots.

Scientists have discovered the culprit behind sea star wasting disease, the most devastating marine epidemic on record.

The afterlife of Puerto Rico’s Arecibo telescope continues with the detection of a powerful “tidal wave” from the Sun.