Astronomers have spotted two giant planets forming around a young star—offering a stunning glimpse of how our Solar System may have…

One of Earth’s greatest migrations is vanishing underwater—and almost no one is paying attention. The world’s freshwater fish migrations—some of the…

Ancient rocks reveal that Earth’s magnetic field during the Ediacaran may not have been chaotic after all. Earth’s Ediacaran Period, which…

Along Alaska’s northern coast, a subtle but significant shift is unfolding as landfast sea ice forms later, disappears sooner, and covers…

New radar data reveals Alaska’s glaciers are melting longer and reacting faster to heat. Alaska’s glaciers are not just shrinking. They…

A naked-eye star’s 50-year mystery is solved—its bizarre X-rays come from a hidden, feeding white dwarf. Easily visible in the night…

New imaging research challenges a long-standing assumption about Parkinson’s disease. A clinical imaging study from Finland suggests that rest tremor in…

A growing body of evidence suggests that a single gene, APOE, may play a far more dominant role in Alzheimer’s disease…