Winged 'basilisk' on medieval pilgrim's badge discovered in Poland
Such badges were common among Christian pilgrims in the Middle Ages, but it's not clear what the basilisk represents.
Such badges were common among Christian pilgrims in the Middle Ages, but it's not clear what the basilisk represents.
An undersea volcanic plateau in the southwestern Atlantic was a tropical island 45 million years ago.
Depending on where we look, the universe is expanding at different rates. Now, scientists using the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes have confirmed that the observation is not down to a measurement error.
SpaceX's powerful Starship system spent roughly an hour in orbit performing test maneuvers for the first time ever. But two simultaneous communications errors means the rocket won't be recoverable.
Cerebras' Wafer Scale Engine 3 (WSE-3) chip contains four trillion transistors and will power the 8-exaFLOP Condor Galaxy 3 supercomputer one day.
Malaysia airlines flight 370 disappeared somewhere in the Indian ocean a decade ago. Now, Malaysia's transport minister wants to renew the search for the missing airplane.
Hungry for Pi? Check out NASA's Pi Day challenge and put your wits to the test solving problems just like NASA scientists and engineers.
Scientists used AI neural networks to teach a robot dog new tricks, enabling it to climb wooden crates and hop between them.
On Pi Day (March 14), NASA reminded us why we need only a small slice of the irrational number's infinite decimal places to explain most of the known universe.
From a poem written by a U.S. Poet Laureate to millions of stenciled names, NASA's Clipper spacecraft's trip to Europa will be marked with a human touch.
Paul Alexander was one of the last people to use an iron lung, having been left unable to breathe on his own after catching polio in the 1950s.
On April 8, a total solar eclipse will cross North America for the second time in less than seven years. That's not typical; here’s how often solar eclipses occur, and when the next total solar eclipse will be visible.
A theoretical new paper argues that atmospheric metal pollution from falling space junk could create an invisible conductive shield around our planet that might weaken our magnetosphere. However, other experts are skeptical of this idea.
Toothed whales appear to have lengthened their lifespan without lengthening their reproductive life so they can help care for their grandchildren, a new study suggests.
Researchers used a computer model to find where the bits of microplastics inhaled by humans end up. What they found is troubling.
A bird photographer in Michigan has captured dramatic footage of the moment a red-headed woodpecker found a starling in its tree trunk nest and evicted it by yanking it out.
New research using artificial intelligence reveals that a decline in the North Pacific population of humpback whales between 2012 and 2021 coincided with the strongest marine heat wave recorded globally.
The most comprehensive cell "atlas" of the developing human heart to date was crafted using cutting-edge technology and includes never-before-seen cell types.
Like-charged objects were found to clump together while opposites repelled because of the newly discovered "electrosolvation force."