The facts surrounding the supposed UFO incident at Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947, and how investigations are continuing to this day.

Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above thunderstorms.

Image of the Andromeda Galaxy in multiple wavelengths, produced by multiple space telescopes and ground-based observatories.

Signaling from retinoic acid appears to be key to getting mice to regrow ear damage.

“Get the Hawk Outta Here” did just that.

A missing, ancient moon named Nerio may have warped Mars into a shape similar to a rugby ball, until it was destroyed or removed.

Zooming in on 78 disks in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, scientists saw hitherto undiscovered structures around young stars.

Bristle worms have protrusions that act like a 3D printer, helping us to understand how cells regenerate.

Human remains were found in three pits during a dig at Cardiff’s Trelai Park

‘Since everything is bigger in Texas, this is perhaps not surprising.’

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a compelling case that it does

Things almost went exactly as planned.

A newly discovered species of dinosaur is now on display at London’s Natural History Museum . Researchers have named this new species Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, a speedy, two-legged herbivore, 64 centimetres tall and 180 cm long that lived about 145 million to 150 million years ago, during the Late Jurassic Period. New Scientist spoke to  Susannah …

Facts about the planet Mercury, including surface features, missions and the history of our relationship with the closest planet to the Sun.

A mix of iron, chlorine, and lithium is conductive, stores lithium, and self-heals.

Laugh now, but you trying running a PB on soft mud.

Webb sees Einstein ring forming around an elliptical galaxy belonging to a galaxy cluster known as SMACSJ0028.2-7537.

‘Museum collections allow you to time travel.’

The Rubin Observatory’s enormous datasets call for cloud computing, seven different “brokers” and, indeed, a butler of sorts.

Meso-American sliders are often victims of the black market animal trade.

Androgenesis may not naturally occur in mammals, but through gene editing, all things are possible.

The recent erratic behaviour of the polar jet stream isn’t out of the ordinary, researchers have found by compiling data from the past 125 years

Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a piece of Mercury. Until, just maybe, now.

Young Jupiter was so big, you could fit 8,000 Earths inside it. Science winds the clock back on our biggest planet

Artefact found along with human digit fossil in Poland’s Obłazowa cave

The reflective film can be used as a coating on multiple surfaces.

Scientists start a controversial project to create the building blocks of human life, in what is thought to be a world first.

Using well-preserved ancient DNA, researchers have created a life-like facial reconstruction of a woman who lived in Belgium’s Meuse Valley during the Mesolithic period

The previously undocumented lineage of hunter-gatherers seems to have disappeared around 2,000 years ago

East Asian Paleolithic voyagers may have used dugout canoes to cross one of the strongest currents in the world.

TWA 7b is 110 light years away and by far the smallest-mass planet to be observed by direct imagery

The new discovery could potentially help scientists solve the puzzle of the Tiwanaku civilization’s disappearance.

Scientists discovered that the fruit is getting more toxic thanks to the return of an ancient defense mechanism.

If this is correct, neutron stars might not be quite what we thought they were.

Parasitic fungi in the age of dinosaurs? Cordyceptional.

From bilateral to pentaradial, the starfish took a basic body plan and ran.

We thought we knew who was first to the Americas, but it seems we were wrong.

Ivan Bukelic was working on a water pipeline in Dubrovnik’s old port when he found a wooden structure buried in the seabed

Modernised version of Da Vinci rotor design could produce less sound intensity per unit lift, researchers say

This previously unknown symbiotic relationship helps keep methane—a major greenhouse gas—trapped in the ocean.

A conference in Cambridge this week will explore a raft of geoengineering ideas to cool the region down – and attempt to address the fears of those who argue the risks outweigh the benefits

And there’s no good reason why.

Isolation allows creatures to thrive as their relatives perish due to the threats present on much larger landmasses

‘It’s surprisingly similar to what is recommended in humans for the length of a power nap.’

New research finds that in many cases, artificial lights play a bigger role than urban heat in changing the seasons for plants.

Viruses are similar to deadly Nipah and Hendra pathogens

New evidence suggests the universe might not behave as expected, raising questions about the costs of being wrong.

The dinosaur was mislabelled and misunderstood – but scientists now realise how special it is.

“The plume is pulsing,” said Earth Science professor Tom Gernon of the University of Southampton.

A massive renewable energy project threatens the treasures that lie beneath, including rare cave animals and a record of ancient life forms, experts warn