Find the dark and hoard your wishes, my babies — the annual Perseid meteor shower is upon us.
Among the finest sky shows in our solar system, the Perseids will be visible throughout the US and most of the Northern Hemisphere in…

Find the dark and hoard your wishes, my babies — the annual Perseid meteor shower is upon us.
Among the finest sky shows in our solar system, the Perseids will be visible throughout the US and most of the Northern Hemisphere in…

Paleontologists have unveiled a groundbreaking discovery: a new species of early-diverging neornithischian dinosaur named Pulaosaurus qinglong. Found in the Tiaojishan Formation of northern China, this newly-identified dinosaur species adds…

Jason Breen is no stranger to wildlife encounters. As an avid surfer and water sportsman, he’s seen lots of marine animals around his home in Sydney, Australia. In fact, a few years ago, a humpback whale rocketed out of the water right in front…

For centuries, people have noticed strange, fleeting flashes of light on the Moon. Long pushed aside as optical illusions or observational errors, these eerie bursts eventually captured the attention of the scientific community.
While observations…

An illustration of a Neanderthal group preparing food
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Neanderthals may have had traditional ways of preparing food that were particular to each group. Discoveries from two…

A fossil found on Vancouver Island in 1988 looked like a typical long‑necked marine reptile, yet every expert who studied Traskasaura sandrae left with new questions.
Scientists have now confirmed that the 39‑foot creature, which lived about…

Scientists analyzing sediment scraped from a rugged ridge nearly three miles under the Central Pacific Ocean expected calm, predictable chemistry. Instead they found a dense band of the radioactive isotope beryllium‑10 (10Be) packed into the…

Our cosmic neighborhood may be far more crowded than previous estimates have suggested. New research hints the Milky Way could have many more small dwarf galaxy “satellites” around it than expected.
The team, comprised of cosmologists from Durham…

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For more than 50 years, scientists theorized that an electromagnetic wave could be reflected…