After combing through NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of ...

A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples ...

As the year draws to a close, we take a look at some of the biggest science stories of the year, and why they matter.

Scientists with the ambitious Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project think they have potentially snagged a sample of DNA from the ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

Although the results aren't conclusive, the technique used to gather the DNA represents a significant milestone in the study ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

Grassroots Carbon, a pioneering Texas-based regenerative ranching partner and soil carbon removal company, today announced a monumental milestone, becoming the first U.S. company to deliver 1.9 ...

A mining-machine test on the deep-ocean floor resulted in species diversity declining by roughly 32% in the tracks of the ...

In 2025, Popular Science continued our mission to demystify our weird world for millions of readers. We debunked myths about ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...

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