This NASA Probe Flew Closer to the Sun Than Ever Before, Here’s What It Discovered!
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has completed a historic milestone by traveling closer to the Sun than any spacecraft…
L.A. storm timeline: Bursts of rain, blasts of wind expected in Presidents Day washout
A powerful winter storm will soak Los Angeles and much of Southern California on Monday, dampening plans for…
How astronomers are unveiling the ‘skeleton’ of the universe
The universe is a vast, unseen loom, weaving galaxies into an intricate cosmic web through invisible threads of…
Watch these otters playing in the Maine woods
This was originally published on Jan. 12, 2025. River otters are members of the weasel family, and are…
Scientists Just Discovered a Fish That Sees in a Way No Other Animal Can
A team of scientists has revealed a previously unknown type of visual cell in deep-sea fish larvae, an…
Contributor: Blending hydrogen into gas pipelines would enrich utilities and harm Californians
The people of Orange Cove in Fresno County could soon be an unwilling part of an experiment in…
NASA Sends Two Rockets Into Space to Uncover the Secrets of Black Auroras
NASA’s recent twin rocket missions from Alaska are aimed at unlocking the mysteries of auroras, specifically the rare…
It looks like a guinea pig on steroids, is nearly as big as a single mattress, weighs the same as a tumble dryer – and is a dab hand at swimming underwater too
Meet the capybara — the world’s biggest rodent and nature’s most laid-back social butterfly — in this quick,…
The World’s Largest Carnivorous Bat, Feared for Decades Until Cameras Revealed the Truth
The spectral bat has long occupied an awkward space in the scientific literature. Too rare to study systematically,…
Economists and environmental scientists see the world differently – here’s why that matters
Imagine someone has chronic pain. One doctor focuses on the body part that hurts and keeps trying to…
This giant metal dome will hide a truly colossal telescope mirror photo of the day for Feb. 16, 2026
The Extremely Large Telescope’ss 80-meter-tall dome takes shape in the Atacama Desert. (Image credit: ESO/G. Vecchia) The European…
4 Rattlesnake Hotspots In Ohio
Rattlesnakes are uncommon in much of Ohio, but they do persist in specific pockets of the state where…