In a village of southwestern India, a child peered into a water tank and noticed a “translucent” creature with visible bones. She didn’t know it at the time, but she’d just discovered a new species.

A team of researchers at the University of Oxford have uncovered crucial evidence for the origin of water on Earth. Using a ...

A planetary scientist explains new research explaining the differing compositions between space rocks that hit Earth and are brought back.

When materials are created on a nanometer scale -- just a handful of atoms thick -- even the thermal energy present at room temperature can cause structural ripples. How these ripples affect the ...