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Quakes on Mars Could Support Microbes Deep Beneath Its Surface

A new study finds that marsquakes may have doubled as grocery deliveries.

Odd-Looking New Species of 340-Million-Year-Old Shark Discovered in World's Longest Cave System

Macadens olsoni adds to the growing fossil record hidden in the limestone walls of the world’s longest cave.

How Netscape lit the web on fire—and then watched the house burn down

Navigator, We Hardly Knew Ye.

For the First Time Ever We Can See Planets Starting to Form Around a Star

JWST and ALMA peered through a natural opening in the star’s surrounding cloud to catch the action up close.

Scientists just figured out how to turn moon dirt into water and oxygen just using sunlight

Scientists find a way to turn moon regolith into water, air, and fuel…and that could change space travel.

Scientists Discover 9,000 Miles of Ancient Riverbeds on Mars. The Red Planet May Have Been Wet for Millions of Years

A new look at Mars makes you wonder just how wet it really was.

Astronomers Found a Star That Exploded Twice Before Dying

A rare double explosion in space may rewrite supernova science.

Scientists Catch Two Wild Orcas "French Kissing" And It Might Mean More Than You Think

Scientists believe the habit is a part of social bonding.

This Shark Expert Has Spent Decades Studying Attacks and Says We’ve Been Afraid for the Wrong Reasons

The cold truth about shark attacks and why you’re safer than you think.

A Massive Particle Blasted Through Earth and Scientists Think It Might Be The First Detection of Dark Matter

A deep-sea telescope may have just caught dark matter in action for the first time.

Astronomers Claim the Big Bang May Have Taken Place Inside a Black Hole

Was the “Big Bang” a cosmic rebound? New study suggests the Universe may have started inside a giant black hole.

New Simulations Suggest the Milky Way May Never Smash Into Andromeda

A new study questions previous Milky Way - Andromeda galaxy collision assumptions.

Veterans Show Lower Rates of Depression Than Civilians in Surprising Study

The new study flips the scrip on prior research.

A Massive Part of the Ocean Is Getting Darker and It’s Already Impacting Sea Life

From the food on your plate to the oxygen you breathe, oceans are essential to our ecosystem.

China Is Building The First AI Supercomputer in Space

China wants to turn space satellites into a giant cloud server.

Astronomers Just Found a Faint Speck That Might Be the Missing Ninth Planet

A new discovery could reshape the Solar System's edge.

Your gold could come from some of the most violent stars in the universe

That gold in your phone could have originated from a magnetar.

Plastics that melt in the ocean offer new hope for cleaner seas

One day we can say goodbye to microplastics.

This Planet Is So Close to Its Star It Is Literally Falling Apart, Leaving a Comet-like Tail of Dust in Space

This dying planet sheds a “Mount Everest” of rock each day.

How a suitcase-sized NASA device could map shrinking aquifers from space

Next‑gen gravity maps could help track groundwater, ice loss, and magma.

Could man's best friend be an environmental foe?

Even good boys and girls can disrupt wildlife in ways you never expected.

This Is How Autocrats Quietly Take Over and What You Can Do About It

We can't rely on just the courts. Reversing political backsliding needs the people's voices.

Researchers Turn 'Moon Dust' Into Solar Panels That Could Power Future Space Cities

"Moonglass" could one day keep the lights on.

Sharks Aren’t Silent After All. This One Clicks Like a Castanet

This is the first evidence of sound production in a shark.

Astronomers Just Found Oxygen in a Galaxy Born Only 300 Million Years After the Big Bang

The JWST once again proves it might have been worth the money.

New NASA satellite mapped the oceans like never before

We know more about our Moon and Mars than the bottom of our oceans.

For the First Time Ever, Scientists Have Directly Detected Carbon Dioxide on Distant Planets

The discovery is keeping astronomers on their toes about how planets are formed.

Astronomers Find Four Sub-Earth Planets Just Six Light-Years Away

Four new planets were discovered around the second-closest star to the Sun.

Megalodon Wasn’t a Fat Great White—It Was a Sleek Lean Killing Machine

Looks like the movies got it wrong; who would have guessed?

Earth's Oldest Meteorite Crater Dating Back 3.47 Billion Years Found in Australia’s outback

The find could hold implications for understanding the origin of life here on Earth.

The International Space Station Might Be "Too Clean" for Astronauts' Own Good

Adding more diverse microbes could boost astronaut health.

Isar Aerospace's Spectrum Nears Historic First Flight as Europe’s First Privately Funded Rocket

If successful, Europe could begin weaning themselves from United States reliance.

NASA astronomers find the fastest exoplanet system at 1.2 million miles per hour

The blistering system could be traveling at just under the Milky Way's escape velocity.

Did astronomers find the most volcanic planet in the universe?

Sulfur dioxide might explain the planet's fiery surface.

Bullseye! Astronomers discover a giant galaxy with nine rings

This galaxy has the most rings we've ever seen.

Early cosmic explosions may have filled the young universe with water

Young supernovas could have spread water out into the cosmos, causing planet formations earlier than originally thought.

New research suggests more supermassive black holes than we ever knew

Most picture the night sky as an endless sea of twinkling stars. But if your eyes could see the universe in X-rays, you’d spot thousands upon thousands of bright points representing giant black holes feeding on gas and dust. A new multi-organizational study published in the Astrophysical Journal suggests we may have missed nearly half […]

Could time travel actually be possible? One researcher thinks so

No word yet if 88 miles per hour is the magic number.

James Webb Telescope Uses Cosmic "Magnifying glass" to Detect Stars 6.5 Billion Light-Years Away

The research group observed a galaxy nearly 6.5 billion light-years from Earth; when the universe was half its current age.

Pluto and its Moon Charon Formed Through a Cosmic "Kiss and Capture"

Until now, the thinking was that Pluto and Charon formed like Earth and our Moon. New research has flipped that script.

How Hot is the Moon? A New NASA Mission is About to Find Out

Understanding how heat moves through the lunar regolith can help scientists understand how the Moon's interior formed.

A Huge, Lazy Black Hole Is Redefining the Early Universe

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a massive, dormant black hole from just 800 million years after the Big Bang.

Should we treat Mars as a space archaeology museum? This researcher believes so

Mars isn’t just a cold, barren rock. Anthropologists argue that the tracks of rovers and broken probes are archaeological treasures.

This Supermassive Black Hole Shot Out a Jet of Energy Unlike Anything We've Seen Before

A gamma-ray flare from a black hole 6.5 billion times the Sun’s mass leaves scientists stunned.

Superflares on Sun-Like Stars Are Much More Common Than We Thought

Sun-like stars release massive quantities of radiation into space more often than previously believed.

Astronomers Just Found Stars That Mimic Pulsars -- And This May Explain Mysterious Radio Pulses in Space

A white dwarf/M dwarf binary could be the secret.

Not a twin planet: Venus was never habitable, says new study

A new study sheds some additional light on the hellscape that is Venus.

Killer whales target whale sharks in rarely seen hunting strategy

Orcas have been observed launching synchronized attacks hunting whale sharks for the first time.

Faraway Galaxy Crashing at 2 Million Miles Per Hour Creates Epic Shock Wave

The powerful shockwave caused by the galactic collision is akin to a "sonic boom from a jet fighter."

Space Travel Slows Thinking Speed. But Astronauts Can Still Complete Tasks Accurately, Says New NASA Study

NASA's research could provide useful information as humans venture farther out into space.

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