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This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the largest planet-forming disk ever observed around a young star. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Kristina Monsch (CfA); Image Processing:…
Rivers may seem as old as the hills, but they have life cycles just like other natural features do. Many grow and make their meandering mark…
A new category of space objects dubbed “platypus galaxies” is defying explanation.These nine strange cosmic objects, spotted in archival data from the James Webb Space Telescope,…
This week’s science news was all about discoveries made by the world’s best telescopes, as the James Webb Space Telescope verified the existence of a runaway…
Archaeologists in southern Sicily have uncovered an ancient bone tool depicting the god Dionysus and his erect phallus. The exquisite workmanship helps date the artifact to…
If you’re about to throw up or get acid reflux, you may feel a burning sensation when acid from your stomach escpes into the esophagus. But…
The discovery of a never-before-seen bump on the leg bone of a 7 million-year-old fossil ape shows it walked upright on two legs while it was…
In 2024, scientists announced the discovery of a newfound anaconda species in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Now, in a new nature series, filmmakers have released nail-biting, never-before-seen…
China’s nuclear fusion reactor, dubbed the “artificial sun,” has breached a major fusion limit by firing plasma beyond its usual operational range, advancing humanity’s slow progress…
Early, ancestral members of the human lineage may have left Africa earlier than widely thought, a new study of fossil teeth suggests.Modern humans, Homo sapiens, are…
