Science

14-Year-Old Cat Returned to Shelter After Losing Her Human Is Heartbroken and Lonely

Some pets end up returning to shelters after adoption for various reasons including financial difficulties, illness, and relocation. Losing their home only...

Evidence of cosmic-ray acceleration from a nearby supernova remnant

Cosmic rays seen at Earth show a wide range of particle energies, from 107 electron-volts (eV) to more than 1020 eV, the latter being about the same as the...

Scientists Challenge a 70-Year-Old Theory of Language With a Surprising Discovery

Researchers have identified a previously overlooked structure underlying human language, revealing patterns that extend beyond traditional measures of...

A violent volcanic eruption may have revealed a new weapon to tackle a potent planet-heating gas

When an underwater volcano erupted in the South Pacific in January 2022, it sent a plume of ash, steam and gas nearly 40 miles above the Earth's surface.

The Blue Moon rises tonight: Where and when to see the second full moon of May

A rare "Blue Moon" takes to the eastern sky at sunset tonight! Here's what to expect from the second full moon of May 2026, as it rises close to the red...

NASA’s Hubble captures gorgeous new photo of a spiral galaxy as it wanders through the Virgo Cluster

Messier 88 is an active galaxy with a central supermassive black hole that is gobbling up gas and dust.

Millions of Bees Have Thrived Under a New York Cemetery for More Than a Century

A morning walk through East Lawn Cemetery in Ithaca, New York uncovered an immense colony of some 5.5 million subterranean bees. The discovery, which a...

Can a human outrun a rhino? Just how fast are these giants when they charge?

You don't want to get in the way of these intimidating animals, as they can move faster than you think...

The Sun might look yellow, but seen from space without an atmosphere filtering its light, the sun is actually white — and the yellow color we see from Earth is the result of our atmosphere scattering blue wavelengths away, in the same physics that makes the sk

The Sun is depicted as yellow in children's drawings, in weather icons, on flags, and in the standard astronomical shorthand.

What is a blue micromoon and when is the best time to see it this weekend?

This weekend the night skies will feature a rare spectacle – a blue micromoon. We take a look at what the phrase means and how to catch a glimpse of the...

A day on Earth is described as 24 hours, but the planet has been slowing down for billions of years — and growth rings in ancient coral fossils show that 380 million years ago, hundreds of millions of years before any dinosaur existed, an Earth day was only ab

The length of a day on Earth is not constant. The planet's rotation has been slowing for billions of years, primarily because tidal friction transfers...

There is a region of space called the Boötes void, around 330 million light years wide and almost completely empty, and if our galaxy sat at its centre, we might not have discovered that other galaxies existed until well into the twentieth century.

In the direction of the constellation Boötes there is a roughly spherical region of space, around 330 million light-years across, in which almost nothing is...

The Sun Just Let Out The Longest Radio Burst We've Ever Seen

The Sun is not known for being quiet. It blasts out energy equivalent to 100 billion nuclear bombs every single second, routinely hurls billion tonne clouds...

EVERYTHING HALLELUJAH 🥺 Justin Bieber delighted fans on Saturday with an Instagram post showing life updates with his wife, Hailey, and their son, Jack. The celebrity couple welcomed their first child in August 2024. (Instagram/Justin Bieber)

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Scientists Discover Mysterious Creature Living in the Great Salt Lake – and It Exists Nowhere Else on Earth

A tiny worm discovered in the Great Salt Lake could help scientists better understand the origins and resilience of life in extreme environments.

The world’s largest fungus is hiding in Oregon’s Blue Mountains — and its really big

In Oregon's Blue Mountains, patches of dying trees once looked like separate outbreaks, scattered across ridges and drainages as if disease had struck at...

SpaceX to launch Starlink mission Saturday morning from Vandenberg SFB

The U.S. Space Force will support the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Saturday between 7 and 11 a.m., sending 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit...

Paleontologists Identify New Hyaenodont Species in Pakistan

Paleontologists have recovered the fossilized remains of three hyaenodont species, including one previously unknown to science, from Miocene sediments in...

The surface of the Sun is around 5,500 degrees, but its outer atmosphere is more than a million degrees hotter, and after decades of work physicists still cannot fully explain how the cooler layer heats the one above it.

The visible surface of the Sun, the photosphere, sits at around 5,500 degrees Celsius. Its outer atmosphere, the corona, runs to one or two million degrees,...