Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a candidate barred spiral galaxy dating…
Ancient Roman Britons May Have Collected 100-Million-Year-Old Ichthyosaur Fossils Out of Curiosity, Ritual, or Mythology, Study Finds
Researchers have identified the oldest known evidence of someone deliberately collecting an ichthyosaur fossil after…
Study Suggests Up to 60% of Medieval Chivalric Stories and More Than 95% of Their Manuscripts Have Been Lost
Much of medieval chivalric literature may have disappeared over the centuries, according to new research.…
Ancient Cave Discovery in Türkiye Suggests Modern Humans and Neanderthals Shared Culture for More Than 20,000 Years
Evidence from Üçağızlı II Cave in southern Türkiye suggests that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals may…
Ancient Chinese Tomb Suggests 2,600-Year-Old Bronze Bells Were Intentionally “Deactivated” After Peace With a Rival State
Bronze bells discovered in the 2,600-year-old tomb of Lord Qiu were likely dismantled on purpose…
Euclid Space Telescope Discovers 31 Ancient Quasars, Including the Earliest Ever Seen From Just 670 Million Years After the Big Bang
European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has uncovered 31 of the oldest known quasars, including…
Binary Star Companions May Explain Why Some Supernovae Stay Exceptionally Bright for Months or Years
Many of the universe’s brightest long-lasting supernovae may owe their unusual behavior to binary star…
James Webb Space Telescope Reveals the Hidden Heart of Centaurus A, Exposing Millions of Stars and a Dynamic Supermassive Black Hole
Four years after beginning science operations, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced its most…
Galaxy 1.8 Billion Light-Years Away Has Emitted an Unusually Bright Radio Jet for More Than Eight Years
Exceptionally persistent radio emission from the nearby galaxy SDSS J110546.07+145202.4 has revealed a rapidly growing,…
Holoparasitic Plant Found to Replace Its Own Mitochondrial Genes With Functional DNA From Host Species
Genes transferred from unrelated host plants can do more than simply persist inside a parasitic…
300-Million-Year-Old Fossil Fish Brain Reveals Early Ray-Finned Fish Evolution, Study Finds
Exceptionally preserved brain tissue inside a 300-million-year-old fossil fish has given researchers an unusually detailed…
First Dinosaur Fossil Ever Found in Antarctica Officially Identified as a Titanosaur From 82 Million Years Ago
Discovered during a British Antarctic Survey expedition in 1985, the first dinosaur fossil ever found…
Museum Fossil Misidentified for Decades Turns Out to Be One of North America’s Earliest Saber-Toothed Cats and Reveals How Their Iconic Fangs First Evolved
Hidden for decades under a simple “feline” label, a nearly complete fossil skull has been…
Scientists Discover the Earliest Known Ancestor of Spider Fangs in a 518-Million-Year-Old Fossil, Revealing How Chelicerae First Evolved
The earliest known evidence of the structures that evolved into spider fangs has been identified…
Brain Size May Have Lagged Behind Body Growth in Human Evolution Before Surging Beyond Expectations, New Analysis Suggests
Body size appears to have increased before brain size in several primate lineages, including humans,…
Repeated Brightening Reveals “Phoebe” Is an Ordinary Variable Star, Not the Long-Sought Lunar-Mass Primordial Black Hole
What looked like one of the strongest hints yet of a lunar-mass primordial black hole…
Giant Exoplanet GJ 436 b Appears to Leave a Magnetic Imprint on Its Host Star, Revealing a Two-Way Star–Planet Relationship
Stars have long been thought to dominate the planets that orbit them, but new research…
Nearby Exoplanet GJ 3378b May Be More Earth-Like Than Scientists Thought After New Measurements Cut Its Mass in Half and Strengthen Its Habitability Potential
Closer measurements of the nearby exoplanet GJ 3378b have significantly changed scientists’ understanding of the…
Smarter City Design Could Improve Both Physical and Mental Health Across the US, Massive Study of 28,323 Neighborhoods Finds
Walking-friendly streets, connected neighborhoods, parks, and mixed-use development are strongly linked to better physical and…
Scientists Discover Giant Rotating Ocean Eddies Can Trap Congo River Freshwater and Carry It 200 Kilometers Into the Atlantic Instead of Letting It Slowly Spread
Fresh water from the Congo River does not simply spread gradually into the Atlantic Ocean.…
Human-Caused Ozone Depletion Helped Cool the Southern Ocean Between 1982 and 2005 by Strengthening Antarctic Winds, New Study Finds
Unexpected cooling around Antarctica may have been driven in part by human-caused ozone depletion rather…
Greenland Ice Melt Could Weaken a Critical Atlantic Ocean Current Far More Than Expected, but New Climate Model Finds No Abrupt Collapse Through 2300
Freshwater pouring from Greenland’s melting ice sheet significantly strengthens the weakening of the Atlantic Meridional…
