Astronomers have found that our galaxy's inner regions take on a peanut-like, or X-shaped, appearance from some angles.

The world’s thinnest glass is just a molecule thick, a serendipitous discovery by scientists, recorded for posterity in the Guinness Book of World Records.

These researchers say that the monitoring of repeated slow oscillations in ground swelling and collapse is vital to understanding whether an eruption is imminent.

“In galaxy disks, the scars of a rough childhood, and adolescent blemishes, all smooth away with time.” - Curtis Struck, Iowa State Astronomer

Water found in ancient moon rocks might have actually originated from the proto-Earth and even survived the moon-forming event.

When closest to the sun, Phaethon may become so hot that rocks on the surface crack and crumble to dust. This makes Phaethon a "rock comet."

Scientists discovered a new species of a peculiar cave-dwelling snail in one of the 20 deepest cave systems in the world, Lukina Jama–Trojama in Croatia.

An enzyme that “unravels” DNA appears to trigger male development of the embryo, a finding that may give greater insight into intersex disorders.

Evidence of diverse life forms dating back nearly a hundred thousand years has been found in subglacial lake sediments by a group of British scientists.

Biologists and physicists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, found out that not all of the Southern Hemisphere humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) migrate towards the equator at the end of the Antarctic summer.