Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai (Hunga Tonga for short) erupted on January 15 2022 in the Pacific Kingdom of Tonga. It created
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A newly discovered galaxy has just smashed the record for the earliest seen yet, presenting a major challenge to our
The famous eruption that shot fountains of lava high into the sky on the island of Hawaiʻi in 2018 is
From The Iron Giant to Big Hero 6, many of us will be familiar with tales of kids befriending robots,
The heartbeat of the Sun is a complex, multi-rhythmic affair, beating in different ways according to various periodicities. We don’t
Amidst a cache of glittering golden treasures from the Iberian Bronze Age, a pair of corroded objects might be the
Human visitors to Mars need somewhere to shelter from the radiation, temperature swings, and dust storms that plague the planet.
We can officially say goodbye to the real-life version of the fictional Vulcan homeworld. Astronomers have found that signals interpreted
The world’s first wooden satellite has been built by Japanese researchers who said their tiny cuboid craft will be blasted
Around 3,000 kilometers (1,864 miles) beneath our feet, there’s a mysterious band of material called the D” layer, which has
The human brain may have steadily grown in size not because evolution plucked some big-brained ancestors out of the crowd,
One of the most peculiar things about Uranus and Neptune is their magnetic fields. Each of these planets has a
So-called “zombie fires” in the peatlands of Alaska, Canada and Siberia disappear from the Earth’s surface and smoulder underground during
Even the simplest of creatures know hunger. That ache for food drives decisions and behaviors in all living things. For
A study of 26 years’ worth of wolf behavioral data, and an analysis of the blood of 229 wolves, has
From the moment you were born until about age 2, your brains’ outer layer – the cortex – rapidly thickened
Google has rolled out its latest experimental search feature on Chrome, Firefox and the Google app browser to hundreds of
Nothing lasts forever, including black holes. Over immensely long periods of time, they evaporate, as will other large objects in
Microscopic chinks in material just several atoms thick have the potential to advance a multitude of quantum technologies, new research
Magma might be roiling and bubbling just underneath the surface of Venus, even as you read these words – and
In recent years astronomers have spotted signs that the jets of plasma particles fired out from supermassive black holes can
Scientists have just identified the formation processes of some of the Universe’s earliest galaxies in the turbulent era of the
On May 20th, 2024, an iceberg measuring 380 square kilometers (~147 mi2) broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
Mammals likely have as diverse a set of opinions as they have variety in their physical forms, but there may
For the first time, the JWST has given us a detailed breakdown of the interior of a world outside our
A segmented little beastie that swam Earth’s seas nearly half a billion years ago has now been identified as the
German cockroaches thrive in buildings all over the world. They’re one of the most common cockroach species, causing trouble for
A Bronze Age armor suit, one of the oldest of its kind, has finally proven itself some 3,500 years after
Cumberland Council in the north of England has announced that people taking pebbles from beaches will now face fines of
Some of Alaska’s clear, icy blue waterways are turning a startling rust orange – so intense it’s visible from Earth’s
Only in recent years have scientists found that not everyone has the sense of an inner voice – and a
Roughly 1,000 light-years from Earth, there is a cosmic structure known as IRAS 23077+6707 (IRAS 23077) that resembles a giant
Life appears to require at least some instability. This fact should be considered a biological universality, proposes University of Southern
The Singapore Airlines turbulence incident that has sadly left one person dead and others hospitalised has made many of us
When massive stars die, as we understand the Universe, they don’t go quietly. As their fuel runs out, they become
Over the last 100 years, countless studies have proven that Albert Einstein’s greatest theory – his theory of general relativity
A mind-boggling number of shining galaxies, a purple and orange star nursery and a spiral galaxy similar to our Milky
Our Solar System is a pretty busy place. There are millions of objects moving around – everything from planets, to
Six of the planets of the Solar System are about to line up for a rare sight in Earth’s sky.
It’s no secret that corvids are capable of some amazing feats of creative and intelligent thinking, but a newly discovered
A world that bears more than a passing similarity to Earth has just been discovered orbiting a star just 40
Humans arrived in Australia at least 65,000 years ago, according to archaeological evidence. These pioneers were part of an early
How Neanderthals went extinct while humans survived is one of the biggest questions in our species’ history. Researchers have long
We may have just taken a huge step towards solving a mystery that has deviled scientists for more than a
A feast devoured by a supermassive black hole a billion light-years from Earth has revealed how fast that black hole
Recorded on the bones of a woman who lived more than 2,000 years ago in Dorset is a life marred
The Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) fascinate researchers and the general public alike. They remain central to debates about the nature of
