Comet C/2017 K2 PANSTARRS was captured on June 18, 2022 in constellation Ophiuchus at magnitude 9.7. (Image credit: John Chumack/galacticimages.com) A megacomet glows in the dark in this long-exposu… [+2449 chars]
Research based on a collection of fossils from the Burgess Shale shows a bizarre-looking animal with three eyes that sheds light on the evolution of the brain and head of insects and spiders. The st… [+3523 chars]
Gills Just Want to Have Fun is a video from Backyard Brains that investigates the question "can fish play games just like us?" The video shows fish chasing a laser pointer around their tank, similar … [+747 chars]
Australias first major contribution to dark matter detection, the ORGAN Experiment, is now online and searching for dark matter, bringing us a step closer to solving one of the biggest mysteries of t… [+2850 chars]
NASA’s CAPSTONE satellite is on its way to orbit around the moon, following a software issue that caused it to lose contact with Earth this week. Launched on June 28, NASA announced it was having com… [+2066 chars]
An international team led by the University of Toronto researchers have discovered 1.2-billion-year-old groundwater in South Africa, shedding more light on how life is sustained below the Earths surf… [+1983 chars]
Mars rovers may have to dig deeper to find signs of ancient life. New research shows that certain protein-building amino acids that could be evidence of ancient life on Mars are more susceptible t… [+4984 chars]
Scientists have been studying Earth for so long, yet a few questions remain unanswered. An international research team led by ETH Zurich and the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS is p… [+3382 chars]
Scientists can use various clues to figure out what's under Earth's surface without actually having to do any digging including firing super-fine lasers thinner than a human hair at minerals found in… [+3367 chars]
It's a big ol' scary ocean out there. When you're just a teeny tiny embryonic squid, there are a lot of things that might like to have you for lunch. One strategy, employed by a variety of squids, i… [+2110 chars]
Deep inside an old gold mine, in a vat of liquid xenon, a new hunt has begun for dark matter the mysterious stuff that makes up about 85% of all matter in the universe. Nobody knows what exactly dar… [+5325 chars]
Primordial solar nebula, drawing. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images) De Agostini via Getty Images Hard and fast details about our solar systems beginnings are extraordinarily difficult to come by. … [+4066 chars]
