The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos. | Continue reading
The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted one of the earliest and most distant supernovas, marking the death of a stellar monster 20 times the mass of the sun. | Continue reading
The Aptera Launch Edition EV offers 400 miles of range on a single charge using an electrical output in addition to 40 miles per day powered by only the sun. | Continue reading
The Bungle Bungle Range in Western Australia is a collection of rock domes forged from ancient seabeds and flanked to the northeast by a prehistoric meteor impact crater. | Continue reading
Scientists have unveiled a giant horned dinosaur from Egypt called Tameryraptor markgrafi after discovering lost photos of fossils destroyed in WWII. | Continue reading
Experts lay bare the health effects of breathing in wildfire smoke and the steps that can be taken to reduce one's risk. | Continue reading
Physicists have long-suspected that the building blocks of protons experienced quantum entanglement. Now, researchers have the first direct evidence — after using a trick to infer subatomic particles' entropy. | Continue reading
Archaeologists have unearthed a unique stone structure in East Jerusalem, providing evidence of cultic activity and possibly animal sacrifice in the Kingdom of Judah during the First Temple period. | Continue reading
NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in 160,000 years, as it lit up the night skies across the globe. | Continue reading
Errors in quantum computers are an obstacle for their widespread use. But a team of scientists say that, by using an antimony atom and the Schrödinger's Cat thought experiment, they could have found a way to stop them. | Continue reading
Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with Charon billions of years ago. | Continue reading
There are around 2 million pieces that make up the Alexander the Great mosaic, but where did they come from? | Continue reading
Argyria is caused by a buildup of silver in the body, which discolors the skin. | Continue reading
In case you forgot it was still up there. | Continue reading
Are UFO sightings a 20th-century phenomena, or did people report seeing them earlier in history? | Continue reading
Hundreds of stone artifacts discovered on a Danish island may have been offered to the gods to ward off a climate crisis. | Continue reading
The FDA will no longer allow red dye No. 3 in foods or ingested drugs, citing evidence that high doses of the dye can cause cancer in male rats. There is no evidence it's carcinogenic in humans. | Continue reading
The Bárðarbunga volcano system was responsible for Iceland's largest eruption for 300 years back in 2014. After a recent increase in seismic activity, could it be about to erupt again? | Continue reading
Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the shelf. Is climate change to blame? | Continue reading
The bone fragments were once thought to be some of the oldest human fossils found in Japan. | Continue reading
An analysis of dozens of British Iron Age skeletons has revealed that Celtic society was organized around women. | Continue reading
The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes what we know about the early universe. | Continue reading
Excavation of a Roman-era cemetery in France yielded nearly two dozen lead tablets inscribed in Latin and Gaulish. | Continue reading
A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls. | Continue reading
An enormous water reservoir — likely the largest aquifer of its kind in on Earth — sits inside the volcanic rocks of the Oregon Cascades, scientists have revealed. | Continue reading
Scientists identified the tiny species of cat from a fossilized jawbone, which could date back as far as 300,000 years ago. | Continue reading
A 21-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital after she was bleeding from her face and palms, with no obvious cause. | Continue reading
Parts of Southern California are covered with pink fire retardant as firefighters try to control deadly wildfires raging in Los Angeles. But what is Phos-Chek fire retardant and is it safe? | Continue reading
The tick was found lodged in the skin of her left ear canal after a thorough examination by her doctors. | Continue reading
The famous helmet is among the Anglo-Saxon artifacts that indicate an eastern link with the Byzantine Empire. | Continue reading
The giant isopod has been named Bathynomus vaderi due to its resemblance to Darth Vader's iconic helmet from "Star Wars." | Continue reading
China has announced plans to build a giant solar power space station, which will be lifted into orbit piece by piece using the nation's brand-new heavy lift rockets. | Continue reading
With an abundance of features and a very reasonable price, the Swift SW200 DL Compound Monocular Microscope is a brilliant all-rounder. | Continue reading
A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the mystery of why no ringed moons exist today. | Continue reading
Researchers identified genes that could explain why some assisted reproductive technologies, like IVF, carry a higher risk of growth and metabolic issues in offspring. | Continue reading
A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's mantle. These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth's crust but appear in seemingly impossible places. | Continue reading
The cores of galaxies may not be made of what we thought, new research suggests — they could hold one giant, invisible star made of mysterious "fuzzy" matter. | Continue reading
A 2023 satellite image captured a pair of peculiar phenomena painting parallel swirls in the sea and sky around Norway's Bear Island, which is surrounded by extremely radioactive waters left behind by a doomed Soviet submarine. | Continue reading
A new method for imaging tattoos reveals intricate designs on Chancay mummies from Peru. | Continue reading
NOAA has declared that a La Niña is underway. This cool weather event is likely to be shorter and weaker than usual, but will still affect global weather and climate. | Continue reading
A woman buried with archery equipment in 10th-century Hungary is unusual but may not necessarily have been a warrior. | Continue reading
Glioblastoma often kills within months. A new targeted radiation therapy may help patients live longer. | Continue reading
A joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the permanently shadowed craters at Mercury's north pole. | Continue reading
A number of new discoveries have been made near the mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut in Egypt. | Continue reading
The well-preserved skull belongs to a never-before-seen species of sauropodomorph that potentially grew up to 33 feet long. | Continue reading
The Spiking Neural Processor T1 is an AI chip that's modeled on the way the brain detects patterns and could extend the battery life in smart devices. | Continue reading
An ecologist shares his passion for parasites. From their vital roles in nature, to strange super powers and extraordinarily complex life cycles, parasites are natural wonders worthy of protection. | Continue reading
A NASA satellite has spotted frozen "kidney beans" on Mars' sand dunes trapped in place until springtime. Photographing them can help us determine if there was ever enough water on Mars to sustain life. | Continue reading