Category: 1. Edi-Choice

Yet Fu still wanted to find DNA to confirm if the skull belonged to a Denisovan. And so she looked in the dental plaque on its single remaining tooth. It was a long shot: while plaque is a very hardy material, researchers more typically find…

SALT LAKE CITY — Hank Woolley was visiting the Natural History Museum of Utah one day when he stumbled across a jar labeled “lizard.”

Inside was a 76-million-year-old fossil that paleontologists had uncovered from Grand Staircase-Escalante…

An Earth-facing sunspot region has been raging with massive eruptions of hot gas that have caused disruptions to our communications systems—and there’s still more to come.

On Tuesday at 5:49 p.m….

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have revealed a nearby spiral galaxy in all its brilliant glory, shining in thousands of colors.

The dazzling panoramic shot released Wednesday of the Sculptor galaxy by a telescope in Chile is so detailed that…

On December 29, 2024, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station captured a striking photograph that could change the way we think about the Sahara Desert. High above the vast sands of northern Chad, the image reveals a surprising sight…

Astronomers have obtained a stunning new image of the Sculptor Galaxy, painted in thousands of colors that reveals the intricacies of galactic systems.

The incredible image of the galaxy — located around 11 million light-years away and also…

From the vast deserts of Arizona to the icy expanses of Antarctica, there are places on Earth that seem to hide more than just geographic intrigue. These seven locations, easily visible on Google Maps, each carry their own unsettling stories….

There are objects in our universe so dense that not even light escapes through them. These oddities, known as supermassive black holes, can weigh billions of times more than our sun.

Scientists have long known that such behemoths lurk in galactic…

“The bogong moth, as far as we know, is the first one that has been described to navigate using the stars,” said Andrea Adden, a postdoctoral researcher who studies at The Francis Crick Institute in London and contributed to the research.

The…