Category: 1. Edi-Choice

A new batch of more than three million pages of investigative files about Jeffrey Epstein that was released by the Department of Justice on January 30 show how the disgraced financier and convicted child sex offender sought relationships with…

A jet from a supermassive black hole is getting more energetic with time, and is now believed to be one of the most energetic objects in the universe.

The jet — nicknamed “Jetty McJetface” — is emanating from a black hole that was previously…

One of Earth’s most dangerous glaciers has claimed a victim: a suite of instruments that became trapped deep within the ice.

A team of researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the Korea Polar Research Institute…

In 1918 Katharine Burr Blodgett arrived at the General Electric Company’s legendary research laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y., a facility known as the “House of Magic.” She was just 20 years old when she entered a world built almost entirely…

While we have sent probes billions of kilometers into interstellar space, humans have barely scratched the surface of our own planet, not even making it through the thin crust.

Information about Earth’s deep interior comes mainly from…

Satellites have tracked week-by-week changes in sea level for 33 years, and NASA has now opened the record.

That public stream exposes sudden bumps and dips that can worsen coastal flooding well before yearly averages show the change.

Weekly sea…

Humanity’s first successful lunar lander is missing. Sixty years ago the Soviet Luna 9 became the first human-made object to achieve a soft landing on the moon—or, for that matter, any celestial body. Yet today its exact location remains a…

Astronomers have yet to fully grasp the Galactic Center—the heart of the Milky Way—although they’re fairly certain that Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole, exists and dictates the cosmic objects in its vicinity. But…

Many tiny specks of ancient water are locked within one of the oldest and most famous Martian meteorites ever to fall to Earth, a new study finds. The surprising discovery, achieved using a new form of “neutron scanning,” reveals more clues…