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An unusual ratio of potassium isotopes, found in samples of basaltic rock brought back to Earth from the moon’s South Pole–Aitken Basin by China’s Chang’e 6 sample-return mission, has provided further evidence for how the impact that formed…

A new peer-reviewed study suggests the iconic dinosaur reached full size between the ages of 35 and 40, significantly later than previously estimated.

The research, published in PeerJ and led by professor Holly Woodward of Oklahoma State…

Harpoons crafted from the bones of humpback and southern right whales show Indigenous groups in what is now Brazil were hunting whales 5,000 years ago.

The discovery, which included 118 whale bones and crafted artifacts, reveal that prehistoric…

Colossal monsters lurk in the centers of all galaxies. Known as supermassive black holes, these gravitational beasts can have millions to billions of times more mass than the sun.

For decades, astronomers have wondered where these behemoths came…

Far out in the South China Sea, a massive underwater sinkhole plunges nearly 1,000 feet straight down. It’s called the Dragon Hole, and it’s a strange, silent world where oxygen vanishes and sunlight never reaches. Yet somehow, deep…

President Donald Trump’s desire to claim Greenland for the U.S. has thrust the island’s wealth of natural resources firmly into the spotlight. But while geopolitical chatter can make it sound as though the Danish territory’s precious metals…

Chances are that all your encounters with frozen water—while trudging through slushy winter streets, perhaps, or treating yourself to cool summer lemonades—have been confined to one structural form of ice, dubbed Ih, with the h referring to…

Such is the vastness of Antarctica, in addition to the relatively little amount of time humans spend there, we perhaps shouldn’t be too surprised to learn there are many unknowns about the Earth’s southernmost continent.

One such mystery…