The well-preserved skeleton still has portions of its fingernails and skin intact — however, its skull remains missing. | Continue reading
Riding aboard a SpaceX rocket, Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lander is expected to lift off in mid-February, though the target window has not yet been announced. | Continue reading
Earth's crust once formed a dense "root" supporting Colombia's northern Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains, but new research suggests this prop sank into the mantle millions of years ago. | Continue reading
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Archaeologists think the luxurious villa was where Pliny the Elder first witnessed the massive volcanic eruption that would later claim his life. | Continue reading
The comet-like asteroid Phaethon likely lobbed thousands of rocky fragments toward Earth while rapidly spinning around the sun 18,000 years ago, new research suggests ― and it may fling some more soon. | Continue reading
A new photo taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station reveals a golden glow surrounding our planet in a phenomenon known as airglow. | Continue reading
A "potentially hazardous" space rock the size of a football stadium is about to reach its closest point to our planet for more than 100 years, and it won't get this close to us again for centuries more. | Continue reading
QuEra has harnessed the power of quantum entanglement to dramatically reduce the error rate in qubits — with the first such commercial quantum computer, made from 256 physical qubits and 10 logical qubits, tapping into this technology when it launches this year. | Continue reading
Observations made by Chile's ALMA telescope have revealed a gigantic quasar quenching a galaxy's star formation — a first-of-its-kind observation in the early universe. | Continue reading
The 1,700-year-old Maya tomb houses a number of artifacts, including a mosaic jade mask. | Continue reading
The silver spoon was used to scoop out cosmetics and medications. | Continue reading
The finding suggests that 'successive pulses of small groups' of humans replaced Neanderthals in Europe starting around 45,000 years ago. | Continue reading
You may have heard that fevers help fight infections. But how, exactly, do they do it? | Continue reading
The latest photos from NASA's immobile Ingenuity Mars helicopter reveal the extent of the rotor blade damage it sustained on its fateful 72nd flight. | Continue reading
The exact same celestial geometry that will cause a total solar eclipse in North America on April 8 will produce the longest one ever, but not for another 162 years. | Continue reading
Researchers in Kenya successfully transplanted a white rhino embryo into a female surrogate for the first time. The pregnant mother-to-be died from an unrelated illness before she could give birth, but the procedure showed that some of the world's rarest animals can still be save … | Continue reading
A virus-like protein made by some tumors may be the culprit behind an enigmatic neurological syndrome in cancer patients. | Continue reading
Piranhas have razor-sharp teeth and often travel in shoals, but can they really strip prey of its flesh in a matter of minutes? | Continue reading
Infectious-disease experts explain why it's never too late in the season to get a flu vaccine. | Continue reading
Team "pro-exomoon" is back to defend the discovery of the first and only exomoons potentially seen by humanity. | Continue reading
New James Webb telescope images reveal 19 Milky Way-like spiral galaxies in more intricate detail than has ever been seen before. | Continue reading
Sonar images could reveal the location of Earhart's fatal crash, but some experts say the object can't be her aircraft. | Continue reading
A sword dredged from a Polish river could be of Viking origin. | Continue reading
A 5,500-year-old Neolithic tomb in Sweden contains the remains of at least 12 people, but many of their skulls and long bones are missing. | Continue reading
Ethereal green "aurora curls" were photographed in the night sky over Iceland after a gust of solar wind vibrated Earth's magnetic shield like a plucked guitar string. The phenomenon is extremely rare. | Continue reading
A nuclear winter could reduce global calorie production by as much as 90%. But vast kelp farms could help save 1.2 billion lives until temperatures recover. | Continue reading
Cities along the Atlantic coast — including New York, Boston, and Miami — are sinking into the ground. | Continue reading
A new study points to brain infection and inflammation as a possible explanation for some cases of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS. | Continue reading
NASA's images show SLIM's landing site both before and after the probe's touchdown. | Continue reading
Scientists have uncovered a unique group of virus-like entities in the human gut and mouth. | Continue reading
Researchers in Morocco happened upon a trackway containing 85 well-preserved human footprints that are some of the oldest in the world. | Continue reading
The moon has been slowly shrinking for millions of years. Now, as Artemis 3 nears its 2026 launch date, geologists worry about whether moonquakes and lunar landslides will impact landing. | Continue reading
A new paper suggests we may finally be able to uncover the identity of dark matter using the same technology that detects ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves. | Continue reading
Researchers say the runic letters may spell "little sword," which could have been the name of the knife's owner or the knife itself. | Continue reading
The lunar lander's solar panels are now generating power, Japan's space agency says. | Continue reading
Prehistoric humans adorned themselves with different types of beads depending on their culture and location in Europe. | Continue reading
A small study suggests that "seeds" of Alzheimer's can be transferred from one person to another via certain medical procedures, leading to the disease later in life. | Continue reading
Organic matter found in samples of asteroid Ryugu suggests that ancient comets may be responsible for bringing the 'seeds of life' to Earth. | Continue reading
We think the universe is 13.8 billion years old, but could we be wrong? A new study of bound galaxies offers an unexplored clue. | Continue reading
The qubit attained quantum coherence for 100 nanoseconds, which an expert described as an "important milestone" in quantum computing research. | Continue reading
What was the typical life span of a dinosaur? It depends on the size and species, of course. | Continue reading
Take a trip through the maze-like valleys and canyons of a unique place in the solar system: Mars' 'labyrinth of night.' | Continue reading
Humans have all kinds of pets, but do any other animals have them too? | Continue reading
In this adapted extract, from Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes, volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer looks at the supereruption of Toba 74,000 years ago, and how our ancient ancestors might have witnessed this catastrophe. | Continue reading
Indian giant squirrels, with their extraordinarily colorful fur, are found in forests and woodlands of India. | Continue reading
Researchers uncovered fossils of multicellular eukaryotes that are over a billion years old. | Continue reading
The new LISA gravitational wave detector, which will be launched into orbit in 2035, promises to detect cosmic collisions from the earliest moments after the Big Bang. | Continue reading