Science

Satellite view of the horseshoe-shaped Yilan impact crater in China, showing the forested rim and central farmlands.

NASA observes China from space and discovers a giant structure hidden in plain sight that not even an entire forest has managed to conceal from the crater

April 18, 2026 at 5:00 PM
An aerial view of a harvested farm field in Bohemia with overlaid digital infrared highlights showing the outlines of prehistoric long barrows.

Archaeologists were exploring ordinary farmland in Central Europe, and what they found underground forces us to rethink 5,000 years of funerary history

April 18, 2026 at 3:00 PM
A satellite-style map of the Barents Sea showing warm Atlantic currents flowing north into the Arctic Ocean.

The Barents Sea is receiving more and more warm water, and scientists believe they have finally found the reason that had eluded them for 40 years

April 18, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A fossilized impression of a frond-like Charnia organism found at the Inner Meadow site in Newfoundland.

A 551-million-year-old site is forcing us to rewrite our understanding of an early mass extinction, and the loss of life may have been much greater than previously thought

April 18, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Rocky shoreline and sea view facing a large mountain across the Strait of Gibraltar, illustrating the tectonic zone linked to Iberia’s slow geological movement.

Spain and Portugal are not standing still, and the geological change that experts have just confirmed completely changes our understanding of the Peninsula

April 18, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Bed bug near a damp surface avoiding contact with water

Bed bugs fear something very common in the home, and science has just discovered that water makes them flee at full speed

April 17, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Submerged ruins of a medieval settlement on the floor of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan, with stone structures and graves underwater

The archaeological discovery of the century: an Atlantis-like city discovered at the bottom of a lake

April 17, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Perseverance rover on Mars capturing dust storm activity and electrical discharges

Lightning has been detected on Mars for the first time, and the Perseverance rover has captured something that seemed impossible

April 17, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Radar view of Venus showing rugged volcanic terrain near Nyx Mons, the region linked to a newly studied underground void.

What appeared to be an old, forgotten file from the Magellan probe, launched in 1990, has turned out to reveal one of the strangest discoveries about Venus: an empty underground tunnel approximately 1 kilometer wide

April 16, 2026 at 5:00 PM
View from the International Space Station showing the Milky Way above Earth’s glowing green and purple aurora along the horizon.

A NASA astronaut points his camera from the Space Station and turns in-orbit experiments into images so strange they look like art from another world

April 16, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Illustration of Sue the Tyrannosaurus rex, the famous Field Museum specimen used in research on how T. rex may have moved with a toe-first step.

They reexamined the world’s largest T. rex skeleton and discovered something that forces us to rethink the true life of prehistory’s most feared predator

April 15, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Scientists examine the Maryborough meteorite at Melbourne Museum after confirming the heavy stone found in Australia was a meteorite.

He thought he had struck gold in Australia, but for years he had held something far more improbable in his hands: a fragment of the solar system that predates our planet

April 15, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Side-by-side view of WOH G64 showing a blurred central star and a larger illustration of the massive star surrounded by a thick cocoon of gas and dust.

Astronomers are holding their breath: one of the most massive stars in the universe has entered a strange and unstable phase, and no one knows what might happen next

April 15, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A small, transparent container holding a fragment of meteorite covered in a microscopic fungal network, floating in a laboratory setting.

No drills, no lasers, no giant robots: the latest outlandish idea in space mining involves a box the size of a Tupperware container and microbes capable of extracting metals from a meteorite in orbit

April 15, 2026 at 10:15 AM
A colorful digital rendering of a human brain with glowing lines highlighting neural connections.

A comprehensive study identifies four ages at which the brain changes course, and one of them is much more surprising than expected

April 15, 2026 at 8:45 AM
A close-up view of microscopic fungus cultures growing on a dark, rough meteorite fragment inside a laboratory setting.

NASA is testing an idea in orbit that once seemed like science fiction and has discovered that a fungus can extract valuable metals from space rocks 400 kilometers above Earth

April 15, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Volcanic terrain near Pavonis Mons on Mars showing lava flows and cone structures from evolving magma system

Scientists have discovered that a “young” region of Mars did not cool as quickly as previously thought, and that its magmatic system continued to evolve quietly for millions of years

April 14, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A 3D digital model showing the Earth's interior layers, revealing massive geological structures deep within the mantle.

Everest pales in comparison to what has been found beneath Africa and the Pacific

April 14, 2026 at 12:30 PM
A close-up view of a 183-million-year-old ammonite fossil with a golden metallic sheen embedded in dark black shale.

A 183-million-year-old black rock is broken open in Germany, and the golden sheen of this Jurassic fossil turns out to be something other than what everyone had believed for decades

April 14, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Real photo of comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS crossing the night sky with a long bright tail

A real interstellar comet entered the Solar System, and the buzz on social media was so intense that even artificial intelligence began generating data about aliens and impossible trajectories

April 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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