The spacecraft was designed to survive falling through Venus's atmosphere. 53 years after launch, it's coming back.

"When considering games and their impact on well-being, there is a tendency to highlight potential negatives, like spending too much time in front of screens," associate professor Janne Lindqvist ...

Russell is a Science Writer with IFLScience and has a PhD in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology.

Changing all that, the researchers announce the discovery of two “burin spalls” – or stone flakes – from a site called Actun Uayazba Kab in Belize. Also known as Handprint Cave, Actun Uayazba Kab ...

“Our idea was to use a very special type of radar to map the world’s forests from space. The goal was to understand how ...

Public health experts worried about the future of vaccination in the US have come together in an unprecedented new initiative ...

Stars are born in families before dispersing, but we have never seen one that has broken up anything like this fast.

“In a unique way among the paradoxes of ancient logic, the Crocodile Paradox can be reformulated as a game with four possible ...

A boiled egg. What could be better? A perfect pod of fats, protein, and flavor, handily packaged in a crackable shell that’s tough enough to survive boiling so that when you rip it away there’s a ...

All but one of Andromeda's satellite galaxies were found to be pointing right at us. According to our best models, that shouldn't be the case at all.

The project also shows that mammoths in the Modern Late Pleistocene fell into three genetic groups, all of which shared a most recent common ancestor around 780,000 years ago. Notably, this loosely ...

A team of astronomers poring through old astronomical data may have seen a candidate for the elusive Planet Nine – a ...