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A fascinating new snapshot from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express has revealed the dynamic landscape of Mars, showcasing both rugged terrain and smoother, younger plains on the planet’s surface. The image captures the Acheron…

A videographer has shared delightful footage of a tiny lumpsucker he spotted in Canadian waters. 

“This was the ONLY Pacific spiny lumpsucker I was able to find and film these past few weeks,” says underwater videographer Kolin Hansen from 

In 2018, Kīlauea volcano in Hawai‘i sent a towering plume of ash nearly five miles into the sky – and it travelled far and wide.

In fact, scientists now believe that this ash kickstarted an even mightier event over 1,200 miles away in the…

In his final days aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Don Pettit has shared a time-lapse video (below) showing the orbital outpost flying above cities at night before passing over a stunning aurora, shimmering in…

An awkward-looking, spherical satellite the size of a grapefruit launched in March 1958, and was boosted into a high elliptical orbit. The satellite, named Vanguard-1, was a test of launch capabilities…

The field of exoplanet study is one of the most rapidly advancing fields in astronomy, going from first confirmed discovery to the first direct images of exoplanets within less than 10 years.

Exoplanets – meaning ‘extrasolar planets’ – are…

NASA recently published some striking images captured by the Perseverance rover. For the first time, a video shows an imposing swirl of Martian dust absorbing another, smaller swirl. This atmospheric spectacle, observed on the relief of the…

Recent fossil discoveries have revealed that two million years ago, one of our distant human ancestors, Paranthropus robustus, was much smaller than previously imagined. Standing just 1 meter tall and weighing only 27 kilograms, this early…

In a groundbreaking discovery, Spanish researchers have unveiled a massive underwater mountain off the coast of Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands, that may be the key to unlocking the mystery of the Atlantis myth. Known as Mount Los Atlantes,…