A full moon showing volcanic domes and impact craters. AFP via Getty Images There are no active volcanoes on the Moon to be found today, but recent discoveries show that the Moon was far longer geo… [+3770 chars]
In 2018, during an archeological survey in a remote area in Laos, an international team of researchers from Laos, Europe, the United States, and Australia discovered a human tooth dating 164,000 -131… [+2280 chars]
What's in a head? According to new research, a little bit of our ancestors' tails. In the early days of complex, multicellular life on Earth, animals started out without any spines or brains. They o… [+2661 chars]
This Hubble image captures a set of galaxies that are unusual because they seem not to have dark matter.Credit: NASA/ESA/P. van Dokkum, Yale Univ. Astronomers think that galaxies cannot form without… [+4568 chars]
After more than five years of data modeling, analysis, and even hauling hard drives around the world, astronomers have finally released the first-ever snapshot of the black hole at the center of ou… [+4097 chars]
A full moon showing volcanic domes and impact craters. AFP via Getty Images There are no active volcanoes on the Moon to be found today, but recent discoveries show that the Moon was far longer geo… [+3770 chars]
This collection of 36 images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope features galaxies that are all hosts to both Cepheid variables and supernovae. These two celestial phenomena are both crucial tools use… [+7937 chars]