A crescent-shaped crater in Northeast China holds the record as the largest impact crater on Earth that formed in the
Rising global temperatures bring dire threats, such as floods, heat-related injuries, water scarcity, and hunger, making up to 3.6 billion
A signal interpreted as the first light illuminating the Universe may not be from the far reaches of the Universe
The Red Sea has been hiding powerful geological forces that could put communities on the coast of Egypt and Saudi
Hidden turbulent motion that takes place inside the atmosphere of the Sun can be accurately predicted by a newly developed
It’s been nearly 80 years since two nuclear bombs were detonated over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing
The largest plane in the world – Ukraine’s Antonov-225 cargo plane – was destroyed by Russian strikes outside Kyiv on
Nearly 200 nations approved a major UN climate change report detailing the accelerating impacts of global warming on Sunday, at
We humans are versatile and accomplished navigators, but insects might have navigation skills that are even better. For them, it’s
An ancient skull uncovered at a 6,000-year-old megalithic monument in Spain still holds signs of what would have been a
Black holes could make a strong case for being the most fascinating phenomena in the whole Universe, and scientists are
The Curiosity rover took a picture of something pretty enticing this week on the surface of Mars. While the object
Microsoft had big plans when it purchased Minecraft, the immensely popular open-world ‘sandbox’ game, back in 2014 for US$2.5 billion. Among them was
Not all planetary systems are alike. Out there in the big, wide galaxy, a number of different configurations have been
The capacity to engage with and comprehend music spans nearly every human society. While other creatures also display musical behaviors
A dance of death is taking place at the heart of a galaxy in the distant Universe. Some 10 billion
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has placed a question mark over the future of the International Space Station, long a symbol
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant and its surrounding area are showing increased radiation levels after heavy fighting between Ukrainian and
Scientists would be able to discover much more about what lies underground if our planet could be sliced open and
A meteor that exploded in the sky over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013 could have also been somehow involved in the
In June 2000, two rival groups of researchers shook hands in the shared success of a milestone in biology –
Russian troops have captured Chernobyl‘s former nuclear power after heavy fighting near the Chernobyl exclusion zone, according to an advisor
The loss of a beloved canine companion is devastating, and new research shows that you might not be the only
When it comes to longevity and surviving extended amounts of time without food, the Argas brumpti species of African tick is
A billion years ago, an absolutely monstrous collision of two clusters of galaxies produced a pair of shock waves of
Fresh water cycles from ocean to air to clouds to rivers and back to the oceans. This constant shuttling can
Archaeologists deep in the Jordanian desert have discovered a 9,000-year-old ritualistic complex near what is thought to be the earliest
The Chicxulub asteroid that ended the reign of the dinosaurs is one of the most momentous impact disasters in Earth’s
A recently discovered repeating fast radio burst (FRB) named FRB 20200120E is deepening the mystery of these already deeply mysterious
Every summer, as the sea ice surrounding Antarctica retreats, tens of thousands of tourists and scientists flock to the landmass
China’s Yutu-2 mission has made another fascinating discovery on the far side of the Moon. Glistening amid the dry, gray
For over 25 years, a group in Poulton, England has been looking for a lost Cistercian abbey. Instead, over the
A deposit of hundreds of embalming tools uncovered in Abusir, Egypt – probably the largest ever found – offers clues
During low tide on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, a graduate student hunting for dinosaur bones looked down at the coastal
You may already know the legend of King Tutankhamen’s space dagger – an iron weapon forged from the rock of
A low-lying continent that existed some 40 million years ago and was home to exotic fauna may have “paved the
An object 681 million light-years away might look like one glorious, exquisite mess, but there’s a lot more going on
When we attached tiny, backpack-like tracking devices to five Australian magpies for a pilot study, we didn’t expect to discover
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched last December, has been slowly powering up its instruments and unfurling its sunshield,
China on Monday denied responsibility for a rocket set to slam into the Moon, after experts said the piece of
A giant exoplanet 855 light-years away is so extreme, it has clouds of vaporized metals and rains liquid rubies and
We tend to think of intelligence as something that describes just one individual. But it’s possible to describe all kinds of
A global analysis of sea levels over the past 2,000 years has found a rapid rate of increase in line
Paleontologists in Argentina have identified a new species of dinosaur which likely had such feeble forearms, it would make Tyrannosaurus rex
Successfully achieving nuclear fusion holds the promise of delivering a limitless, sustainable source of clean energy, but we can only
Almost half of Americans morally opposed to abortion would help a friend or family member with arrangements to get one,
Photosynthesis quite literally changed our world. Plants ‘eating’ sunlight and ‘breathing out’ oxygen transformed Earth’s entire atmosphere into the one
In the Mediterranean region, the soil is degrading, and land is turning to desert faster than anywhere else in the
