March 12, 2021

We finally know what’s going on with that weird, long, recurring cloud on Mars

In 2018, a camera on board the Mars Express mission caught sight of a strangely long and wispy cloud, billowing across

Contentious hypothesis posits humans brains grew larger as we hunted smaller prey

Over the course of the Pleistocene epoch, between 2.6 million years ago and 11,700 years ago, the brains of humans

This nearby exoplanet may have lost its atmosphere, and then made a new one

Five years after its discovery, one of the Milky Way’s most exciting exoplanets just got even more intriguing. GJ 1132

Ancient magma from Earth’s early days discovered in rocks from Greenland

Our planet’s surface has seen a thing or two in its 4.5 billion-odd-years of existence. Weathered by ocean, corroded by

For the first time, we’ve examined the stomach contents of a 47-million-year-old fly

Scientists have found a 47-million-year-old fossilized fly with a bloated belly absolutely full of pollen. The discovery is the first

The largest asteroid to pass Earth this year is rapidly approaching

The largest asteroid to pass by Earth this year will approach within some 1.25 million miles (two million kilometers) of

Bacteria could be the first organisms found to use quantum effects to survive

Oxygen is life to animals like us. But for many species of microbe, the smallest whiff of the highly reactive

Dazzling treasures unearthed in Bronze Age grave likely belonged to a queen

The burial of a woman who lived and died thousands of years ago could shift our perceptions of one of