The authors challenge the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) 2006 planet definition, arguing that scientific definitions should emerge organically from usage within expert communities, not ...

Astronomers are proposing a new, more quantitative definition of what makes a planet. The new definition looks more directly at the object's mass — but it would still leave Pluto out of the running.

The Biden administration announced a number of initiatives to improve open science policies in 2023, including advancing efforts to make taxpayer-funded research publicly accessible. The White House ...

NOBEL SCIENCE prizes are awarded in three areas: physics, chemistry and physiology or medicine. But occasionally some noteworthy discovery comes along that does not really fit into any of them. In ...

U.S. millennials are rejecting suburbia and moving back to the city. That was a prevailing idea in 2019, when I started as the social sciences reporter at Science News. But when I began digging into a ...

Explore our most highly accessed* Earth science articles in 2018. Featuring authors from around the World, these papers highlight valuable research within Earth science from an international community ...

Science in Crisis in the context of UNESCO’s programmes, refers to any threat to the functioning of the scientific system of a given country including to the “right to benefit from advancements in ...