September 13, 2024

A Giant Cosmic Question Mark Has Been Identified in Deep Space

Space is full of punctuation. Look carefully, and you’ll see periods, colons, ellipses, even commas. Complex symbols are slightly more

New Simulations Suggest Planet Nine Might Not Be a Planet at All

In the outer Solar System, far from the light and warmth of the Sun, things can get a little… hinky.

Mega El Niños Could Have Inflamed Earth’s Most Devastating Extinction

Life was put to the ultimate test a quarter-billion years ago as extinction events ravaged Earth’s biosphere, leaving a mere

Skyscraper Tsunami Unleashed by Seismic Anomaly Never Seen Before

Earthquake scientists detected an unusual signal on monitoring stations used to detect seismic activity during September 2023. We saw it

NASA Can Finally Explain Why Creepy ‘Spiders’ on Mars Keep Appearing

Mars has spiders unlike anything else in the Solar System. Between the ocher dunes, across the scars of impacts, long-legged

FDA Approves Apple AirPods Pro as Hearing Aids in Industry First

Apple on Thursday got a green light from US regulators to add a feature that would let upcoming AirPods Pro

A Completely New Structure of Light Has Been Created: The Chiral Vortex

A completely new structure of light just dropped, called the chiral vortex – and the international team of scientists behind

SpaceX Makes History With First Spacewalks Ever by Private Citizens

A pioneering private crew made history Thursday by performing the first commercial spacewalk, with NASA hailing it as “a giant

Humans Keep Growing an Extra Artery in Their Arms, And Here’s Why

Picturing how our species might appear in the far future often invites wild speculation over stand-out features such as height,