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A wildlife photographer captured a humpback whale giving birth, a moment so rare and raw that no aerial footage existed before
The first known aerial footage of a humpback birth off New South Wales shows calving happening far south of the old map.
NASA’s New Horizons flew past Pluto just once in 2015, but more than a decade later scientists returned to its old images and found evidence that liquid nitrogen may have flowed across the frozen surface
A Byzantine ship that had been sunk at the bottom of the Adriatic Sea for more than 1,300 years was discovered, and after recovering its 600 grams of gold, archaeologists realized that it was likely not carrying just any passengers
Scientists have discovered fossils of creatures that lived 567 million years ago in remote mountains in Canada, and some of them were already capable of moving across the seafloor even though they didn’t even have mouths
A man was searching for objects with his metal detector in a forest in Poland when he found a 2,700-year-old sword, and as soon as he saw it, he realized it was best not to dig it up
Silencing ancient brainstem neurons made mice far more distractible, the first evidence that evolution kept an old attention circuit alongside newer brain systems
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft borrowed Mars’ gravity in May 2026, gaining a thousand miles per hour and testing instruments built to study a metal-rich asteroid
Around 2010, iron-rich liquid beneath the Pacific switched direction inside Earth’s outer core, a reversal that peaked then weakened again by 2020
Nine quantum components act together in a strange metal sample, showing how a solid you could hold reveals the hidden teamwork of the quantum world
- An Italian study found microplastics in the blood of 84% of heart attack patients, but the small sample means it proves far less than it sounds
- Scientists found groundwater trapped beneath the Sahara for nearly 1 million years, and the discovery is more complicated than one giant hidden ocean underground
- A shark found dead on an Irish shore has left scientists astonished — it may have been only 150 years old but not mature, and its species can live 400 years
- Steep waterfalls blocked a Norwegian mountain lake from all fish for thousands of years until 5000 BC, when hunter-gatherers made a choice that fed the region for 7,000 years
- A circular pit on Google Maps caught an amateur astronomer’s eye, and what the rocks revealed has puzzled scientists — a meteorite impact from 390 million years ago
- A Roman latrine has survived for nearly 2,000 years, and scientists just discovered why — calcite growth is actually making the concrete stronger with time
- A carved monument tied to Assyrian King Ashurbanipal has been recovered at Bab Shamash, with royal images and cuneiform writing preserved on the stone stele
- Archaeologists recovered a piece of ancient fabric from Gran Carro, an underwater settlement in Italy, among the remains of a domestic loom submerged for thousands of years
- Astronomers found helium in the atmosphere of LHS 1140 b, a rocky exoplanet 48 light-years from Earth, the first confirmed atmosphere around a rocky planet orbiting another star
- An AI analyzed 170,000 bird bones from more than 2,000 species, and the result pushes Darwin’s idea one step further
- NASA satellites caught an underwater eruption in the Bismarck Sea off Papua New Guinea that could raise a new island, though the tremors have been fading since June
- The search for room-temperature superconductors just got a huge boost from artificial intelligence, help that could speed up one of physics’ hardest dreams
- Explorers discovered a cave in Vietnam with rare cave pearls, delicate natural formations that look like jewels made by darkness and water
- Giant footprints in Mongolia are shaking up what we knew about dinosaurs, because their size and shape tell a story that does not fit neatly into the old picture
- Melting ice in Norway revealed 1,300-year-old skis in remarkable condition, an icy window into how people moved through high mountains centuries ago
- The Greek city of Ambracia resisted a Roman siege using the first known use of poison gas, an ancient story that sounds way too modern
- Neanderthal babies were absolute units, according to a new study that changes how we imagine our most famous human relatives from the very start of life
- In one of the least explored parts of Earth, scientists found life forms that look like they came from another planet, a sharp reminder of how little we know about the deep ocean
- New data on liquid iron in Earth’s core suggests stranger internal movements than expected, as if the planet were hiding deep machinery we are only beginning to understand
- Metallic space balls appeared on an Australian beach, leaving a movie-like question behind: what fell from the sky and why did it end up in the sand?
- Scientists discovered a mud volcano off Trinidad formed by earthquakes in Venezuela, a structure born from shaking that shows how the seafloor also keeps fresh scars
- A new scientific discovery has opened a rare window into Earth’s deep past, showing that ancient clues can still shake up what we thought we knew
- Paleontologists announced a soft-tissue discovery millions of years old, a rare find because these delicate remains usually disappear long before anyone can study them
- CERN has shut down the Large Hadron Collider for 4 years to rebuild it from the inside, and when it returns in 2030 it will not be faster, but far more luminous
- China’s Tianwen 2 probe is on its way to asteroid 2016 HO3, a small space rock that could become a key piece in the new race to bring back secrets from deep space
- A volcano may have erupted remnants of Earth’s primordial magma ocean, material so ancient it could come from the planet’s earliest chapters of fire and rock