On July 4, the Travers's beaked whale (Mesoplodon traversii), never seen alive before, washed up on a beach in Otago, New ...

Years of data analysis and new imaging techniques revealed an unusual phenomenon in NGC 5084: a supermassive black hole with ...

In everyday life, when things turn out the opposite of what you expect, it's usually cause for frustration. In science, it's ...

"It's a completely unexpected discovery, not predicted by the physics we already know, and therefore revealing a gap in our knowledge." ...

A No Man's Sky player sees a weird glitch involving freighters while exploring a planet in the space survival game's massive ...

With the help of computer modeling, the experts determined that wavy pipes, the speed of the fluid inside them, and some ...

Photo from Alkmaar municipality's heritage office A crane operator in the Netherlands made an unexpected discovery of a 500-year-old sewage pit, which contained rare items that provide a unique ...

What we can glean from the pattern of accidental discoveries in science, especially in the pharmaceutical industry, and their ...

New analysis techniques and decades-old research helped NASA scientists identify an unusual black hole in a distant galaxy.

Following Bashar al-Assad’s downfall, WSJ travels to an abandoned prison in Damascus while families across Syria desperately search for missing relatives, and in the process makes a grim discovery.

Researchers have uncovered unexpected diversity in the genetic processes that determine the sex of the African clawed frog, a significant discovery in what was already one of the most widely studied ...