Astronomers are Hunting Down the Elusive Population III Stars
It’s hard hunting down the oldest stars in the universe. These behemoths, known as Population (or Pop) III…
567-Million-Year-Old Fossils Suggest Animals Evolved Earlier Than We Thought
Reconstruction of a hypothetical deep-water paleocommunity from the new fossil site in Canada’s Northwest Territories, based on fossils…
Giant space mirror approved to test sunlight on demand
Reflect Orbital’s plans to have more than 50,000 satellites reflecting sunlight back to Earth could cause huge disruption…
Prey accessibility — not abundance — may shape predator behavior in penguins
image: Schematic illustration showing how repeated dives from shared sea-ice openings lead penguins to encounter krill progressively deeper…
Canada Ties New West Coast Pipeline to Oil Sands Expansion
Canada’s biggest oil sands producers, the Alberta provincial government, and the federal government have reached a new milestone…
Hubble Sees Crimson Cloud and Stars
Blue and white stars shine brilliantly against a crimson background of glowing gas in this July 3, 2026,…
The Oldest Stars in the Galaxy Just Weighed In on One of Cosmology’s Biggest Arguments
How do you check the universe’s age without a birth certificate? One clever answer is to find its…
Scientists spot 4 superdense stellar corpses hiding behind their red dwarf companions
Astronomers have spotted four dead star white dwarf stars playing a game of cosmic hide-and-seek, all four of…
Scientists show that DNA can last for up to 50,000 years in Africa — much longer than previously thought
Researchers have extracted DNA from a 50,000-year-old tooth belonging to an African antelope, setting a record for the…
Scientists are deep-freezing koala eggs and sperm to protect the species from extinction
Scientists in Australia are deep-freezing koala eggs and sperm as a “genetic backup” to save the wild population…
This cosmic ‘lighthouse’ is blazing a magnetic trail through the Milky Way
Astronomers have, for the first time, directly mapped the magnetic field surrounding an unusual “lighthouse” pulsar, revealing an…
New evidence undermines our theories of the universe
New observations appear to have undermined our leading theories of the universe — so claims Kansas State University computer…