Aboriginal people hold Ayers Rock, or Uluru, as a sacred site. (Credit: Uwe Aranas/shutterstock) Scores of Aboriginal Australians were taken from their homelands when Europeans colonized Australia. And today, native peoples and their ancestors’ remains…

A simulation of galaxies (orange) and gas (blue) in the universe. There are rare pockets of gas left over from the Big Bang that has remained unpolluted by material from exploding stars. (Credit: TNG COLLABORATION)…

A Himalayan marmot. (Credit: Yuanqing Tao) How do animals live in the cold, oxygen-starved environments of the high mountains? Himalayan marmots — beaver-ish rodents of unusual size — may have an answer, find scientists who…

Kevin Lafferty emerges from the waters off Anacapa Island near Ventura, California, after spearing fish in March 2018. He’s advising a UCSB PhD student on research to determine if reef fish inside protected marine reserves…

Expedition 57 crew members Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency), left, Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos, center, and Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA landed safely in Kazakhstan after six months in space. (Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls) A…

(Credit: sedat seven/shutterstock) Doctors have long scratched their heads over the causes and cures for two common diseases of the digestive system: IBS and IBD. But research out today in Science Translational Medicine takes a…

A composite image of meteors falling through Earth’s atmosphere during the 2015 Perseid meteor shower. (Credit: Belish/Shutterstock) Extraterrestrial Sugar Scientists have discovered derivatives of life’s building blocks in carbon-rich meteorite samples, a first. They also showed…

This artist’s concept shows giant clouds of hydrogen (blue) evaporating from the Neptune-sized exoplanet GJ 3470b as energetic charged particles from its host star beat down on the planet. The hydrogen is escaping the planet…