A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

“Dogs like to watch dogs, just like humans like to watch humans,” said Dr. Freya Mowat, a veterinary ophthalmologist at the ...

Scientists found a 307 million-year-old fossil, Tyrannoroter heberti, revealing one of the earliest known land vertebrates ...

Families packed the Kentucky Science Center Saturday for "Ready, Set, Glow!" a day full of hands-on science that explored ...

Breaking Bad may have brought new meaning to the term on-screen chemistry, but were its characters' crystal meth-making ...

Auroras, shimmering bands of light that shoot through the night sky near the Earth’s poles, can follow patterns known as arcs ...

"Mystery Science Theater 3000" stars Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett know a thing or two about bad movies.

RiffTrax and Shout! Studios have teamed to produce four new episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 with Mike Nelson, Bill ...

Science fiction shows often emphasize fiction over fidelity to science. Doctor Who famously popularized the pseudoscientific nonsense phrase “reverse the polarity of the neutron flow” in the 1970s, ...

When a scrappy team of scientists joined forces in the late 1990s, they sought to identify genetic mutations that could have an outsized impact on the treatment of human disease. At the time, that ...

Touch a hot plate and your hand flies back. While the response is almost instant, researchers are still working to better understand the molecular mechanisms behind these sensations of heat and pain.

HBO premiered Tales from the Crypt on June 10, 1989, a horror anthology TV series based on William Gaines' infamous 1950s EC Comics. The series proved to be a hit (and ranked as number one on Collider ...