Scientists have demonstrated in a first that a powerful laser beam directed at the sky can create a “virtual lightning rod” that can divert the pat…
It is now widely accepted that birds are descended from dinosaurs . It is also understood that this transition encompasses some of the most dramat…
Beavers are renowned for building dams, which the animals construct from trees and branches they cut using their strong front teeth, according to t…
Many believe our particularly large brain is what makes us human – but is there more to it? The brain’s shape, as well as the shapes of its compone…
A nearly 28,000-year-old cave lion cub, discovered frozen in the Siberian permafrost, is so well preserved, you can still make out each and every o…
Black holes form natural time machines that allow travel to both the past and the future. But don’t expect to be heading back to visit the dinosaur…
The mystery of whether microbial alien life might inhabit Enceladus, one of Saturn's 83 moons, could be solved by an orbiting space probe, accord…
A supermassive black hole is racing across the universe at 110,000 mph (177,000 km/h), and the astronomers who spotted it don't know why. The f…
A new species of confuciusornithid bird being named Confuciusornis shifan has been identified from a nearly complete skeleton found in northeastern…
Multiple NASA telescopes recently observed a massive black hole tearing apart an unlucky star that wandered too close. Located about 250 million lig…
She's out there somewhere, lurking in a parallel universe of possibilities. All you have to do to summon her into being is type the right promp…
Einstein's theory of general relativity upended humanity's understanding of the universe more than a century ago, and since then, scientist…
Scientists spotted something exciting on Saturn's moon Titan in images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope in early November — cloud…