The last supermoon of the year will peak alongside the Leonid meteor shower
Look up to the night sky Friday night for November’s full moon, 2024’s last supermoon, followed by the Leonid meteor shower ...
‘Mystery mollusk’ found in the ocean’s midnight zone is unlike anything researchers have seen before
An unusual sea slug with a large hood, a tail with fingerlike projections and glowing bioluminescence has been found living ...
Alien-like signal from 2023 has been decoded. The next step is to figure out what it means
A father-daughter duo has decoded an alien-like signal beamed from a spacecraft in 2023. Now, citizen scientists are trying ...
Lucy at 50: How the world’s most famous fossil was discovered
Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...
Archaeologists identify centuries-old battle site in Iraq using declassified spy satellite images
Archaeologists say they have found the site of an ancient battle in what is now Iraq by comparing historical accounts with ...
New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong
A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...
Here’s (almost) everything you need to know about filtering tap water
After finding uranium and lead in my water, I spoke to experts to find out everything I needed to know about how to properly ...
The Northern Taurid meteor shower could produce fireballs. Here’s how to watch
The Northern Taurid meteor shower is expected to peak Monday night into Tuesday. Here’s what to look for and how to see it.
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Researchers are learning more about ‘Zosia,’ the 17th century ‘vampire’ buried with a blade over her neck
Researchers recreated the face of a 17th century woman buried with a sickle across her neck and a padlock on her toe, ...
Mysterious craters exploded in Siberia’s permafrost. Scientists say they now know why
A decade ago, a mysterious crater appeared in the Russian Arctic, forming a huge jagged hole hundreds of feet wide. Since ...
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Ancient ‘terror birds’ were giant apex predators. Suspected new species is among the largest ever known
Analyzing a leg bone from a fossil site in Colombia, scientists have identified a massive “terror bird” that lived about 12 ...
DNA analysis upends long-held assumptions about Pompeii victims’ final moments
Ancient DNA recovered from Pompeii shows that people found holding one another beneath the volcanic ash weren’t related in ...