Scientists Discovered a New Type of Rock Made Out of a Gemstone Mineral Inside a Martian Meteorite
Garnet is a group of minerals that commonly occur on Earth. Pictured here, andradite garnet crystals from Madagascar.…
How sea slugs get their flashy colors
birds: Warm-blooded dinosaurs with wings that first showed up at least 150 million years ago. Birds are jacketed…
Here’s how engineers plan to save the satellite sent to save NASA’s Swift mission
One week ago, more than 200 miles above the Earth, a refrigerator-size satellite making its way toward an…
Water cuts loom as US unveils long-awaited response to Colorado River crisis | US news
The US government released its anxiously awaited plan for how to manage the Colorado River crisis on Friday,…
In a first, ‘super-Earth’ rocky exoplanet may have an atmosphere
Scientists say they have detected promising signs that a planet orbiting a star 49 light-years from Earth could…
Mushroom hunters entered a Nepal forest and found a nest built by the only snake known to make one. Officials have now restricted access while conservationists monitor the site
The discovery has prompted authorities to limit public access to the region while conservationists monitor the nesting site.…
Did this giant, prehistoric 1.8m tall wombat inspire a man-eating mythical monster…?
Australia was once home to giant marsupials, relatives of today’s kangaroos and koalas. The largest amongst them was Diprotodon, a…
Never-before-seen picture of Milky Way galaxy released
Veteran NASA astronaut Don Pettit has shared a photo of Milky Way galaxy he captured during his latest…
NASA’s Curiosity rover finds a mysterious honeycomb landscape on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover has encountered an extraordinary landscape while climbing through a Martian valley nicknamed “Valle Grande.” Images…
Elon Musk’s fortune slumps to pre-SpaceX IPO levels after rout
SpaceX pulled off a successful launch last Friday evening at its Starbase facility in South Texas, sending its Starship rocket…
When scientists first uncovered the ancient mummies of western China, their European-looking faces and fair hair suggested they were travelers who had wandered east from Europe — but their DNA told a stranger story: they were a local people who had lived there, isolated, for thousands of years
Her eyelashes are still there. So is the flaxen hair, the tasselled white wool cloak, the felt hat…
The trees of the Amazon pump such staggering amounts of moisture into the air that they create invisible rivers in the sky, and those rivers travel thousands of kilometres to water farmland in countries far from the forest itself
Try to picture, for a moment, the sheer physical scale of what a single large tropical tree does…