The Thunder Moon or Buck Moon, as it’s called, the first full moon of the astronomical summer, will occur Thursday.
On July 10, the moon will rise in the southeastern sky and will be illuminated throughout the evening until it sets in the…

The Thunder Moon or Buck Moon, as it’s called, the first full moon of the astronomical summer, will occur Thursday.
On July 10, the moon will rise in the southeastern sky and will be illuminated throughout the evening until it sets in the…

A new species of giant saber-toothed cat has been identified, providing fresh insights into the history of North America’s prehistoric predators. This remarkable animal, which lived between 5 million and 9 million years ago, weighed as much as…

Take a weeble, run it through a Minecraft filter, build it almost entirely of open air, and what have you got? It’s called a Bille, and as a monostable tetrahedron – that is, a four-sided shape that will always come to rest on the same side,…

A groundbreaking discovery has emerged from the world of microbiology, one that blurs the lines between what we traditionally define as living and non-living. Researchers have identified a unique organism that appears to straddle the boundary…

U.S. astronaut Nichole “Vapor” Ayers captured a spectacular view of a phenomenon known as a “sprite” blazing to life above an intense thunderstorm — and she did this while orbiting 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth aboard the…

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Long believed to be a single, globally distributed species drifting freely across the open ocean, the bluebottle – also known as the Portuguese man o’ war – has been…

A groundbreaking study published in Science Advances have revealed new evidence about Neanderthal survival strategies, suggesting they were rendering fat from animal bones nearly 125,000 years ago—long before modern humans developed similar…

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has successfully demonstrated a revolutionary method for deep space navigation, as the probe ventured through the Kuiper Belt at a distance of more than 5.5 billion miles from Earth. This achievement, the…

ATLANTA — The peak of summer is approaching for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, but as we prepare for more sunshine and sweltering temperatures, our planet is spinning at its farthest point from the sun.
On Thursday at 3:55 p.m. ET, our…