A new kind of exploding ant found in Borneo will simultaneously fascinate you and gross you out with its toxic self-sacrifice. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a ...

If you’re a parent, you may know just how important it is to get kids focused on science. Kids know, too, from watching TV shows like Sid the Science Kid and Magic School Bus. But how to get kids the ...

Dark matter is a ghostly substance that astronomers have failed to detect for decades, yet which we know has an enormous influence on normal matter in the universe, such as stars and galaxies. Through ...

Fifteen new species of “exploding ants” – including one entirely new to science – have been discovered in Southeast Asia, Gizmodo reported, citing the results of a survey published Thursday in the ...

Astronomers have taken a superdetailed, zoomed-in photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud's "behemoth star." The stunning image, which is the first of its kind from outside the Milky Way, shows that the ...

How can artificial intelligence (AI) help astronomers identify celestial objects in the night sky? This is what a recent ...

[explosion] If that seems like a volcano, well, you’re almost right. It’s an experimental re-creation of what happens sometimes when cold water meets hot lava in a real volcano. Researchers at the ...

Astronomers have watched a mysterious cosmic object shoot out 1,652 blasts of energy over a short period of time. Though researchers are still stumped as to what caused the repeated eruptions, they ...

The brightest known supernova shines with the light of about 550 billion suns. This stellar explosion is more than two times as bright as the previous record holder, Subo Dong, an astrophysicist at ...