For over 150 million years, their bones have been locked away in stone — silent witnesses to seas long vanished.…
Scientists Create the First Ever Quantum Skyrmion Made of a Single Photon
For decades, skyrmions — swirling, particle-like configurations stabilized by topological rules — have fascinated physicists. Born from high-energy physics theory…
Ancient South African Caves Reveal a Hidden World of Fossils and Possible Human Ancestors
In the rolling landscapes of South Africa’s Cango Valley, the ground hides more than rock and soil. Beneath its limestone…
Ancient Fossil Reveals Australia and New Guinea Were Once a Single Wild World
For millions of years, the lands we now call Australia and New Guinea have been separated by the flooded expanse…
The Mars Rover Might Have Been Carrying a Life Detector All Along
For decades, humanity’s quest to answer the age-old question — Are we alone? — has fueled missions to distant worlds.…
Astronomers Discover the Most Chemically Diverse Disk Ever Seen Around a Brown Dwarf
Astronomers have taken a close look at one of the smallest and youngest star-like objects in our galactic neighborhood —…
Astronomers Discover Earthlike Water Hidden in a Wandering Ice World
In the cold, dark reaches of our solar system, comets drift like frozen time capsules, preserving secrets from the dawn…
Scientists Uncover 35000 Stars Pulsing in Celestial Harmony
For as long as humans have looked up at the night sky, we’ve seen stars as fixed, eternal points of…
Mysterious Object Detected in Earth’s Shadow Sparks Search for Answers
For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has meant listening for faint whispers from the stars — radio beacons, laser…
Astronomers Detect Mysterious X Ray Signal From a Black Hole 28 Thousand Light Years Away
Black holes are among the most extreme and enigmatic objects in the universe — invisible giants that swallow everything, even…
Mars Night Skies Found to Be Far Cloudier Than Anyone Imagined
For decades, scientists studying Mars have known the planet wears a thin veil of clouds — ghostly wisps of water…
Scientists Witness a Cosmic Giant Begin Its First Breath in Six Billion Years
For the first time, astronomers have caught a cosmic giant in the very moment it begins to stir from eons…
Astronomers May Have Found the Slow-Spinning Galaxies That Shaped the Early Universe
Far out in the depths of space, where light has traveled for more than 13 billion years to reach us,…
Why Our Sun Is Calmer Than Almost Every Other Star in the Universe
When we look up at the Sun, it’s easy to forget that it is just one of billions of stars…
The Universe’s First Galaxies May Have Formed Faster Than We Ever Imagined
In a discovery that could upend our understanding of how the cosmos began, scientists at the University of Missouri have…
How the Universe’s First Stars May Have Lit Up the Cosmos and Vanished Forever
In the quiet corridors of the University of Virginia’s Department of Astronomy, astrophysicist Jonathan Tan is reimagining one of the…
Scientists Capture the Most Haunting Glare in the Universe
For more than ten years, one cosmic object has been taunting astronomers with a baffling contradiction. Known as PKS 1424+240,…
Astronomers Detect the Most Distant Fast Radio Burst Ever, Shining Light on the Universe’s “Cosmic Noon”
It lasted just a few thousandths of a second — a fleeting pulse of radio energy racing across the cosmos.…
DNA From Ancient Graves Reveals West African Roots in Early Medieval England
On England’s south coast, in two quiet 7th-century cemeteries, archaeologists have uncovered an unexpected chapter in the island’s history. The…
Ancient Skull From Italian Cave Reveals a Forgotten Ice Age Tradition
On a wind-polished stretch of the Ligurian coast in northwestern Italy, the Arene Candide Cave has long guarded the secrets…
Lost Currency of Southeast Asia Shows Ancient Civilizations Were More Connected Than We Ever Imagined
For centuries, the jungles, rivers, and coastlines of mainland Southeast Asia have guarded the silent remnants of a world once…
Ancient Andean City Reveals Farming Was the Secret to Survival Near the Sea
In the barren coastal deserts of Peru, where the parched earth meets the roaring Pacific, the ancient city of Vichama…