Every second of last year, the Earth’s oceans absorbed the equivalent in energy to 12 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs.
Global ocean heat content (OHC) increased for the ninth consecutive year in 2025, according to a report released…

Every second of last year, the Earth’s oceans absorbed the equivalent in energy to 12 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs.
Global ocean heat content (OHC) increased for the ninth consecutive year in 2025, according to a report released…

Early, ancestral members of the human lineage may have left Africa earlier than widely thought, a new study of fossil teeth suggests.
Modern humans, Homo sapiens, are the only living member of the human lineage, Homo, which is thought to have…

NASA has released an unprecedented time-lapse video showing the evolution of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant, a cosmic relic of a massive stellar explosion. Captured by the Chandra X-ray Observatory over more than 25 years, this video provides…

Remains of an early human ancestor from a critically important period in our evolutionary history have been found in Morocco.
Dated back 700,000 years using…

PHOENIX — A newly discovered asteroid spins about as fast as a Ferris wheel. With a rotation period of just 112 seconds, it’s the new record holder for fastest-spinning asteroid wider than 500 meters. Scientists think it must be…

An astronomer who has made ground-breaking discoveries about millisecond pulsars, gamma-ray bursts and supernovae and an “exemplary” mathematical geophysicist specialising in Earth’s magnetic field have each been awarded the Royal Astronomical…

A record-breaking study into a giant sunspot that triggered Earth’s biggest geomagnetic storm in more than two decades has revealed surprising new details about the explosive dark patch. The monster sunspot unleashed almost 1,000 solar flares…

In 2024, scientists announced the discovery of a newfound anaconda species in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Now, in a new nature series, filmmakers have released nail-biting, never-before-seen footage of the moment they encountered the snake in the…

China has achieved a significant milestone in the development of its Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST), also known as the Xuntian Space Telescope. The successful completion of a high-quality scientific data simulation marks a crucial…

Last month, an eastern screech owl in Florida saw an opportunity he couldn’t pass up.
As a homeowner opened her back door early one morning, the owl flew inside, found a nice perch on a curtain rod and fell asleep.
Many…