Curiosity has reached a Martian landscape where a sea of geometric cracks stretches beyond the rover’s view, wrapping around a 20-foot-tall butte in an ancient geological puzzle
As rising reservoir waters closed in on an ancient Angolan settlement, archaeologists uncovered a pottery urn holding the country’s only known cremation beside centuries-old stone graves that had remained hidden for more than 500 years
Strange faint rings appeared across Venus in polarized light, and a forgotten telescope observation may have captured a hidden atmospheric phenomenon no one knew to look for
A tiny speck of light emerging only 52 milliarcseconds from the blazing face of Betelgeuse may finally explain why one of the night sky’s most famous stars has spent decades fading and brightening on a mysterious six-year rhythm that astronomers could never fully account for
Astronomers Finally Found a Tidal Disruption Event Far from Any Galactic Center, Revealing a Long-Suspected Wandering Black Hole That Shouldn’t Be There
Strange 511,000-Electron-Volt Glows Beyond the Milky Way May Be the First Hints That Other Galaxies Are Producing the Same Positron Signal Long Seen in Our Own
1.43-Million-Year-Old Footprints in Kenya Reveal Surprisingly Large Early Hominins, Unusual Walking Mechanics, and Possible Evidence of Adult Males Traveling Together
Discovery of Enlarged Spinal Openings in Three Extinct Smilodon Fossils Suggests Rare Neurological Tumors Affected Ice Age Predators Near the End of the Pleistocene
Injectable Hydrogel Carrying IL-4-Activated Astrocyte Vesicles Helped Mice Regrow Blood Vessels in Stroke-Damaged Brain Tissue and Regain Near-Normal Movement
Brain Study Reveals Why Both Activating and Blocking the Same Obesity Drug Target Can Reduce Weight by Acting in Different Brain Regions
Distractions Can Shrink Working Memory to Just One Usable Goal, Revealing Why We Rethink Plans Instead of Resuming Them After Interruptions
Ancient Australian Fossil Rewrites the Family Tree of Marsupial Predators With the Earliest Known True Dasyurid Ever Found
Atlantic Ocean Climate Shifts May Have Helped Drive the Late Bronze Age Collapse by Triggering Extreme Mediterranean Drought
Oxygen and Neon Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider Reveal Stronger Evidence for Primordial Quark–Gluon Plasma Beyond Heavy-Ion Experiments
Newly Discovered Late Bronze Age Gold Diadems From Cyprus Reveal a Distinct Local Style Shaped by Egyptian, Minoan, Mycenaean, and Near Eastern Influences
Study Finds Ice Age Cave Paintings Followed a Consistent Graphic System Across Magdalenian Europe Rather Than Random Artistic Choices
Ancient Egyptians May Have Chosen Sacred Baboons to Represent the Moon God Because Their Fur Reflects Moonlight, Study Suggests
Scientists Discover a Miniature Earth-Like Dungey Cycle Above Mars That Powers Some of the Planet’s Brightest Auroras
Whale Sharks Display Remarkably Flexible Feeding Strategies That May Help Them Thrive in Nutrient-Poor Tropical Seas
May 2024 Solar Storm Exposed Gaps in Britain’s Power Grid, Satellite Safety, and Space Weather Forecasting, Scientists Say
Astronomers Discover Mysterious Cosmic Explosion AT2019ijn That May Represent a New Class of Relativistic Optical Transients
Europa’s Hidden Ocean May Be More Isolated Than Scientists Thought, New Simulations Challenge Pathways to the Surface
James Webb Reveals Six Young Galaxies Packed Into a Tiny Region, Offering Rare View of Early Giant Galaxy Formation
