After a multi-decade-year mission to understand the nature of the universe, a telescope perched in the mountain plateaus of northern…
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The Gale crater on MarsZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy A Mars crater may have once contained water that sloshed back and forth…
The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies and satellites of the Milky Way. The LMC is about…
quick factsWhat it is: Gamma-ray burst GRB 250702BWhere it is: 8 billion light-years away, in the constellation ScutumWhen it was…
A glacier meets the sea in Dickson Fjord, GreenlandJane Rix/Alamy The Arctic will retain about 1.5°C of warming even if…
The Norwegian “rules of use” for Sámi reindeer husbandry were intended to help keep reindeer husbandry sustainable and allow for…
New telescope images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS confirm that the mysterious object has gotten brighter and greener since its…
By Howard Bloom On Monday December 8th the Oxford University Press Journal SLEEP Advances made a startling claim: that, as one…
Quantum particles can now be made to carry useful information for longerkoto_feja/Getty Images The odd phenomenon of quantum superposition has…
A research team at Florida State University’s Institute of Molecular Biophysics and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry has discovered how…
When is winter? Weather forecasters in the Northern Hemisphere will tell you Dec. 1 through the end of February, which…
Comet Lemmon, photographed from northern Italy on 26th October 2025Marcel Clemens/Alamy I don’t think anyone declared it, but 2025 was…
Canada on Tuesday launched a CAN$1.7 billion ($1.2 billion) program to recruit leading global researchers, part of the effort to…
An incredibly luminous star system that has long baffled astronomers could soon light up the sky with the nuclear brilliance…
Firefighters working in Spain in AugustPedro Pascual/Anadolu via Getty Images This year is set to be the second-warmest year on…
Ocmulgee Mounds, a site in central Georgia with 12,000 years of Indigenous history, may be on the verge of becoming…
Homo floresiensis — a small ancient human species nicknamed the “hobbit” — may have gone extinct around 50,000 years ago…
Some researchers are concerned that tattooing brings health risksOlga Kolbakova / Alamy Tattoo ink collects in lymph nodes and interferes…
Americans use the f-word more frequently on social media than Australians or Britons, but Australians are more creative in its…
The celebrity comet 3I/ATLAS is showing itself out of our solar system for good — but not before the cosmic…
Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third known visitor to our solar system from elsewhereInternational Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Shadow the Scientist; J. Miller…
A new study from UNC-Chapel Hill researchers shows that advanced artificial intelligence tools, specifically large language models (LLMs), can accurately…
Just outside the gate of a 4,000-year-old city in China, archaeologists found a pit full of 80 skulls from human…
AI chatbots may have the power to influence voters’ opinionsEnrique Shore / Alamy Does the persuasive power of AI chatbots…
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is invaluable in the medical world. But despite all the good it does, there is room…
For millennia, an ethnic group in what’s now southwest China placed their dead in “hanging coffins” on cliffsides, but their…
A cave near a site of ancient human occupation in the Arabian desertCourtesy Huw S. Groucutt, et al The dry…
For years, Yale researchers David Breslow and Mustafa Khokha have worked together with a similar challenge in their sights—trying to…
QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Guérou, Mauritania [16.930575400, -11.759622605]What’s in the photo? Three black mesas surrounded by unusual sand dunes in…
The Soyuz spacecraft blasting off on 27 NovemberRoscosmos space corporation, via AP/Alamy The International Space Station (ISS) may soon become…