Science

“I’m Stunned and Flabbergasted”: Scientists Were “Blown Away” By a Rare Fossil Discovery Challenging Past Thinking on Pre-Dinosaur Evolution

Ryan Whalen·July 28, 2025

A newly discovered prehistoric reptile, Mirasaura grauvogeli, was found to have unusual structures similar to feathers.

Cosmic Radiation Gifted ‘The Fantastic Four’ With Superpowers—But What Would It Do to a Person in Real Life?

Micah Hanks·July 26, 2025

What would happen to someone in real life if they were exposed to the same cosmic forces that gifted The Fantastic Four with superpowers?

NASA’s “Hail Mary” Moment: Incredible Deep Space Surgery Saves JunoCam from Jupiter’s Fierce Radiation Fields

Ryan Whalen·July 25, 2025

NASA successfully completed a rescue mission to save the JunoCam camera on the Juno spacecraft, only recently revealed.

Stonehenge Mystery: Enigmatic ‘Newall Boulder’ Wasn’t Moved by Glaciers After All—Its True Origins Are Even More Striking

Micah Hanks·July 23, 2025

A discovery from England’s famous Stonehenge has now been traced to a surprising source, which upends past thinking on its origins.

Scientists Reveal Most Detailed Map of Antarctica’s Seafloor Canyons Ever Made

Christopher Plain·July 23, 2025

Scientists have just published the most detailed map of Antartica's seafloor revealing ultra-deep canyons reaching up to 4,000 meters.

Seismologists Identify Rare Supershear Event During Devastating Myanmar Quake

Christopher Plain·July 22, 2025

Seismologists reveal that the March 28, 2025, Myanmar earthquake likely moved at 'supershear' velocity, which is analogous to supersonic.

Enter Ammonite: Discovery of Distant Space Object Shakes Up the Hunt for Planet Nine

Chrissy Newton·July 22, 2025

Astronomers have discovered "Ammonite," a mysterious object on the solar system’s edge whose unusual orbit challenges current theories about a hypothetical ninth planet.

An Ancient Viral Code in Our DNA Is Still Shaping What It Means to Be Human, Study Reveals

Tim McMillan·July 22, 2025

New study reveals hidden viral DNA in primates plays key role in gene regulation and evolution through ancient regulatory elements.

The Fountain of Youth Might Be Psychedelic: Breakthrough Study Finds Psilocybin Boosts Lifespan and Cellular Health

Tim McMillan·July 22, 2025

Psilocybin shows potential as an anti-aging drug, extending lifespan and improving cellular health in new studies.

Astronomers Reveal Betelgeuse Has an Elusive Stellar Companion Linked to Star’s Curious Brightness Cycle

Ryan Whalen·July 21, 2025

Betelgeuse, the red supergiant star closest to Earth, has finally been proven to have a companion star in observations from NASA scientists.

Researchers Discover “Doubling-Back Aversion” —The Hidden Bias Sabotaging Smart Decisions

Tim McMillan·July 21, 2025

A new study reveals how Doubling-Back Aversion leads people to reject smarter choices just to avoid undoing past progress.

Satellite Images Reveal Strange Circles, Smiley Faces, and Other Seasonal Curiosities on the Greenland Ice Sheet

Micah Hanks·July 20, 2025

With the arrival of summer, the Greenland Ice Sheet has adopted its ‘summer look,’ revealing a few odd shapes and other curiosities.

Evolution Keeps Producing Anteaters, and New Research Finally Reveals the Strange Reason Why

Micah Hanks·July 19, 2025

New research has revealed the evolutionary reason anteaters have evolved at least a dozen times since the time of the dinosaurs.

Look: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Just Had Its Closest-Ever Encounter with the Sun, and Has Historic Pictures to Prove It

Ryan Whalen·July 19, 2025

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has proven to be an essential tool in understanding space weather, a major potential hazard to life on Earth.

“Everything is Unusual About This Galaxy”: James Webb Space Telescope Uncovers Strangely Shaped ‘Infinity Galaxy’

Ryan Whalen·July 18, 2025

The Infinity Galaxy is a recent discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope’s COSMOS-Web survey, found in archival data.

American Southwest Faces ‘New Reality’ as Scientists Warn Severe Megadrought May Endure for Centuries

Chrissy Newton·July 17, 2025

The worst megadrought in 1200 years is affecting the American southwest, and there's likely no relief coming anytime soon.

“It Could Tell Us the Story of Many Other Solar Systems”: Doomed Exoplanet May Change Our Understanding of Planetary Evolution

Ryan Whalen·July 16, 2025

On a collision course with its star, the Jupiter-like exoplanet TOI-2109b has astronomers keenly observing its unusual orbital decay.

Forget OLEDS, QLEDS and PHOLEDS. New Ultra-Bright QRLEDS Are Finally Here

Christopher Plain·July 16, 2025

A team of scientists trying to improve upon OLEDs and QLEDs used in modern smartphone displays have created ultra-bright QRLEDs.

Chang’e-6 Returns First Samples from Far Side of the Moon, Revealing Deep Lunar Secrets

Ryan Whalen·July 16, 2025

Earth’s Moon always presents us on the surface with the same face, yet its mysterious far side features many significant differences.

New DNA Evidence Suggests First Australians May Have Arrived Later Than Previously Thought

Tim McMillan·July 15, 2025

New study uses DNA evidence to challenge claims that humans arrived in Sahul 65,000 years ago, pointing to a later migration instead.

“The Secret Might Be Here on Our Own Planet”: This NASA Scientist Is on a Mission to Find Out What Aliens Look Like

Christopher Plain·July 15, 2025

NASA has tasked a University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist who studies extremophiles with figuring out what aliens probably look like.

Gravitational Waves Unveil Record-Breaking Black Hole Merger, Challenging Existing Models

Ryan Whalen·July 14, 2025

The most massive gravitationally detected black hole merger to date has been observed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration.

Scientists Link Cataclysmic Volcanic Eruptions to Mysterious Continent-Sized ‘BLOBS’ Deep Within the Earth

Micah Hanks·July 14, 2025

New research traces the origins of Earth’s most powerful volcanic eruptions to mysterious continent-sized structures deep within our planet.

Astronomers Detect a Mysterious Giant and “Hidden Substructures” Lurking in the Haze Around a Young Star

Ryan Whalen·July 14, 2025

Shrouded by a swirl of gas and dust, a gas giant, roughly three to ten times the size of Jupiter, was found in a new exoplanet discovery.

New Simulations Reveal Dozens of Hidden Galaxies Orbiting the Milky Way

Ryan Whalen·July 12, 2025

There may be many more satellite galaxies in the Milky Way than have been observed, according to new Durham University simulations.

Scientists Discover Mysterious 80-Million-Year-Old Landscape Hidden Beneath Antarctica

Christopher Plain·July 12, 2025

An international team of scientists have discovered a mysterious, ancient landscape hidden beneath the ice sheet of Eastern Antarctica.

A Forgotten Martian Landscape May Hold the Key to Ancient Water on the Red Planet

Ryan Whalen·July 12, 2025

New evidence for past water on Mars was revealed in research identifying over 15,000 kilometers of dry riverbeds on the Martian surface.

“What Else is Out There?” New Study Reveals Everything We Currently Know About Mysterious Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS

Micah Hanks·July 11, 2025

New research has revealed everything astronomers currently know about the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.

An Unknown ‘Fifth Force’ May Explain a Baffling Physics Mystery—These Researchers Have a Bold New Plan to Uncover It

Micah Hanks·July 11, 2025

Physicists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have a novel plan to uncover an unknown fifth force of nature long theorized to exist.

Have Astronomers Found Signs of Life in Venus’s Atmosphere? UK-led VERVE Mission Aims to Investigate

Ryan Whalen·July 11, 2025

The VERVE mission seeks to investigate the presence of bacterial life floating in the heavy cloud cover on Venus up close.

Scientists Are Engineering “Moon Rice” for Space Missions That Could Also Feed Earth’s Harshest Habitats

Ryan Whalen·July 11, 2025

Moon habitation and missions to Mars face resupply challenges, which the Italian Moon-Rice project aims to solve with a bioengineered crop.

“Can They Really Do That?” Discovery of New Light-Sensitive “Cryorhodopsin” Proteins Could Revolutionize Neuroscience

Ryan Whalen·July 10, 2025

A protein called cryorhodopsin, a molecule found in the coldest environments on Earth, may hold the key to manipulating human brain activity.

‘CosmoCube’ Spacecraft Plans to Listen for Whispers from the Cosmic Dark Ages on the Far Side of the Moon

Ryan Whalen·July 10, 2025

A proposed satellite mission aims to orbit the far side of the Moon to detect faint radio signals from the universe’s cosmic Dark Ages.

Into The Abyss: Scientists Capture First-Ever Images of Ultra-Deep Waters Near the Mariana Trench

Christopher Plain·July 10, 2025

Scientists used an autonomous underwater vehicle to image previously unexplored, ultra-deep waters near the abyss of the Mariana Trench.

“Something Unknown Is at Work” Behind NASA’s DART Planetary Defense Mission—and Astronomers Are Worried

Ryan Whalen·July 10, 2025

Planetary defense scientists say NASA’s DART asteroid redirection mission sent space rocks hurtling on unexpected trajectories.

Scientists Map 37,000 Years of Human Infectious Disease in Landmark Effort to “Help Us Prepare For the Future”

Micah Hanks·July 9, 2025

New landmark research has successfully mapped 37,000 years of infectious disease across ancient human populations.

Forgotten for Nearly a Century, a ‘Lost’ Fusion Breakthrough Has Been Unearthed—and Physicists Just Recreated It

Micah Hanks·July 9, 2025

A forgotten fusion experiment from 1938 has been unearthed, revealing a lost discovery that seeded a key concept in modern nuclear physics.

“E-MERLIN is Showing What’s Possible”: UK Telescope Array Captures a Rare Look at Protoplanetary “Pebbles”

Ryan Whalen·July 9, 2025

New observations from England’s e-MERLIN interferometer telescope array display cosmic pebbles that will one day grow into entire exoplanets.

From Ears to Rears, a Group of Chimpanzees is Putting Grass in Strange Places, and Scientists Are Fascinated

MJ Banias·July 9, 2025

In Zambia, a peculiar trend has swept through a group of chimpanzees: blades of grass, stylishly dangling from ears and their behinds.

Discovery of Meteorite From Lost Protoplanet Upends Timeline of the Solar System’s Formation

Tim McMillan·July 9, 2025

Ancient meteorite reveals a protoplanet formed in the outer Solar System earlier than thought, reshaping planet formation theories.

Resurrecting the Moa: A New Deextinction Initiative Blends Māori Wisdom with Cutting-Edge Genomics to Revive a Lost Giant

Micah Hanks·July 8, 2025

A groundbreaking new collaboration is working to resurrect one of New Zealand’s most enigmatic lost species, the South Island Giant Moa.

Look: Stunning First Images from Vera C. Rubin Observatory Reveal the Cosmos Like Nothing You’ve Ever Seen

Micah Hanks·July 8, 2025

The widely anticipated first images collected by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have been released, offering nothing short of an awe-inspiring view of the cosmos.

Scientists Are Tracking an Undersea Phenomenon Off Japan’s Tsunami-Prone Coast Linked to “Silent” Earthquakes

Micah Hanks·July 7, 2025

In a scientific first, researchers have tracked the elusive motion of a rare variety of earthquake during a seismic event along a major fault zone on the ocean floor.

Could the Large Hadron Collider Disprove String Theory? Scientists Say Yes—With the Right Discovery

Tim McMillan·July 7, 2025

A new study proposes that discovering a single exotic particle at the LHC could falsify string theory as we know it.

NASA Reveals New Images of Oddly Shaped Asteroid ‘Donaldjohanson’ Captured by Lucy Spacecraft

Micah Hanks·July 4, 2025

NASA has released new detailed images revealing a full-frame view of the peculiarly shaped asteroid Donaldjohanson.

NASA’s SPHEREx Space Telescope Begins Its Groundbreaking Mission to Share All-Sky Mapping Data with the Public

Ryan Whalen·July 4, 2025

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has settled into low-Earth orbit, providing a wellspring of publicly available space data.

“There is a Warning Here”: Permian-Triassic Extinction Reveals the Devastation of a Climate Tipping Point

Ryan Whalen·July 3, 2025

An ancient climate tipping point is revealed in new fossils dating back to Earth’s most severe extinction event, called the “Great Dying.”

James Webb Space Telescope Discovers Peculiar Cosmic ‘Jellyfish’ in Rare Galactic Observation

Micah Hanks·July 2, 2025

The most distant known example of what astronomers call a “jellyfish galaxy” has been spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

“I Literally Screamed with Joy”: In a Rare Stellar Discovery, Kilonova Project Citizen Scientists Have Made a Breakthrough

Ryan Whalen·July 2, 2025

Citizen scientists working with the Kilonova Project made their first confirmed discovery of a rare exploding star, enabling rapid follow-up observations by astronomers.

Is Cosmic Expansion Losing Steam? Scientists Say Dark Energy’s Grip May Be Weakening

Ryan Whalen·July 1, 2025

Scientists say the dark energy in our universe may be losing its power over time, leading to a slowdown in universal expansion.