Side-blotched lizards probably don’t call the game that, but they play a version of it anyway. A new study explains the ...

The researchers argue that the Maryborough meteorite is much rarer than gold. In 2015, while prospecting in Maryborough Regional Park near Melbourne, Australia, David Hole discovered an unusually ...

Like an interstellar rolling stone. NASA scientists were baffled after uncovering a rock on Mars that didn’t belong there — with a composition pointing to potentially interstellar origins. “This rock ...

People in the U.S. were treated to stunning auroras last week when a powerful geomagnetic storm pushed the celestial displays as far south as Florida and Mexico. The spectacle was particularly ...

An 84-year-old Rock Hill motorcyclist has been killed in the sixth cycle crash in York County in the past three months, officials said. Peter McLean died after the 1981 Honda motorcycle he was driving ...

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Steven Schnell has been a science guy from the start. When the new executive director of Little Rock's Museum of Discovery was a kid it was science, not sports, that attracted his time and energy.

Scientists believe intriguing leopard spots on a rock sampled by the Perseverance rover on Mars last year may have potentially been made by ancient life, NASA announced Wednesday. The team has also ...

As “The Martian”, Sir Ridley Scott’s film of Andy Weir’s novel, reaches its climax the world watches attempts to save Mark Watney, a NASA astronaut stranded on Mars, with bated breath. All of ...

Vibrant red sandstone surrounded Nicholas Heinz as he hiked in Sedona, Ariz., in January 2024. But an odd rock, smaller than the palm of his hand, caught his eye. The gray basalt peppered with ...

Various man-made objects embedded into geological rocks. Image from the study. The coastline near Derwent Howe, in England’s Cumbria, hardly seems a place where geologists would find new things.

Little Rock School District and city officials on Monday showcased the newest addition to the city's landmark high school: A glistening, three-story science building featuring more than two dozen labs ...