Hyper-defensive engineered plants produce fewer seeds, grow shorter Plants engineered to always be on guard for pests tend to be smaller and produce [...]

Cassini's last Saturn flights result in new studies (NASA/Getty Images) Cassini's final ventures into Saturn's atmosphere last year yielded a number of scientific [...]

Now an "ugly duckling" from 85 million years ago is shedding new light on the giant marine reptiles that lived at the time [...]

Bees went silent during total solar eclipse Citizen-scientists placed microphones in flower patches at 11 locations in the path of the 2017 solar [...]

Rubble-strewn surface of asteroid Ryugu The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has released the highest-resolution photo yet of the surface of Ryugu, the asteroid [...]

Neanderthal child's bones digested by large bird found in Poland The 115,000-year-old finger bones of a Neanderthal child have been discovered in Poland, [...]

Hayabusa2 drops MASCOT lander onto Ryugu's surface Japan's Hayabusa2 has deployed another lander onto the surface of the asteroid Ryugu. The MASCOT, a [...]

Mother giraffes pass spot patterns down to offspring, study says (Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images) Baby giraffes inherit their spot patterns from their mothers, a [...]

Japan to test mini space elevator Japanese scientists will send a miniature version of a space elevator to the International Space Station on [...]

Hidden sea life may lure great white sharks Scientists with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California say they may have found [...]