Elana Glowatz

Scientists found enough color in a dinosaur fossil to figure out how it camouflaged itself from predators 130 million years ago.

A new portable device gives doctors the ability to perform an ultrasound with their smartphones, and one used it to find his own cancer.

The grooves that look like scratch marks on Mars are made by dry ice snowboarding down the sandy slopes of its largest crater.

There’s some debate over whether an ancient Indian manuscript actually contains the oldest recorded use of zero as a number.

After a humanoid robot was granted citizenship for the first time, it made a dig at Elon Musk and talked about whether artificial intelligence would take over the world.

Scientists might be able to identify bats based on the patterns in their wings, which may be as distinct as human fingerprints.

Scientists found that dogs who had stressful days did not sleep as well as happy dogs.

Scientists found a link between marijuana abuse and anxiety disorders, in a study that also looked into the effect of childhood abuse and other factors on weed smokers.

Modern people have different levels of Neanderthal DNA based on where they are from, and scientists may have figured out why.

Parents are declining to have their newborns screened for genetic disorders: They worry about data breaches — and the possibility that insurance companies might discriminate against their kids.

The first trees on Earth would grow larger by tearing themselves open at their bases to make more room.

The time of year when a mother delivers her baby could affect her risk of postpartum depression, as could the amount of labor pain she experiences.

A researcher was poring over satellite imagery on Google Earth when he found mysterious ancient stone structures in Saudi Arabia that are hard to notice from the ground.

The University of Cambridge put Hawking’s PhD thesis online. You don’t have to be a physicist to figure out what happened next.

Ocean-covered exoplanets could be a target in the search for alien life, but their stars might be blowing away their atmospheres.

Since NASA was founded in 1958, spacecraft technology has dramatically advanced.

NASA and Google have made a virtual reality program that lets people explore Mars.

The fossil of a tyrannosaur found in Utah has a nearly complete skeleton and can teach us a lot about the evolution of dinosaurs and what they were like.

This asteroid is just one big pile of rocks traveling through space together.

Volcanic eruptions on the moon once released enough gas to create an atmosphere.

Astronauts might be able to use underground caves on the moon for shelter, building a lunar base in one of them and making scientific discoveries in the chambers.

Volcanic eruptions affect the flow of the Nile River, and in ancient Egypt it sent people into revolt.

Sending a space probe to Mars’ bigger moon Phobos could be hard because the sun is constantly spitting out electrically charged particles.

Since leaving Blink-182, Tom DeLonge has focused on UFOs, and now he wants to build a spaceship that will “travel instantaneously through space, air and water.”

A weird asteroid orbits the Earth and the sun at the same time.

The world’s biggest animals made the Earth more fertile because they pooped everywhere. But now they are mostly extinct and our planet has suffered for it.

Researchers say short waiting periods for people buying guns would save hundreds of lives every year without restricting who can buy a firearm, because it gives emotional people time to rethink their plans.

With the drug epidemic raging, it’s vital to learn the signs of opioid addiction and overdose — and how to save the life of someone you love.

Astronaut Scott Kelly spent 520 days in space, so he took to Reddit to let people know what it smelled like.