This week, see zombie fungi trapped in an amber fossil, explore the sun’s hidden south pole, meet tool-using whales that groom each other, and more.

IN A NUTSHELL 🚀 The SpaceX Dragon capsule returned with 6,700 pounds of futuristic gear from the International Space Station. 🛡️ The MISSE-20 project tested material durability in space, influencing future spacecraft design. 🤖 The Astrobee-REACCH robotic s…

Researchers at MIT have tested a new technology for turning water vapor in the atmosphere into drinkable water, even in extreme environments.

The huge asteroid 2024 YR4 was first discovered in 2024 and initially thought to have a 1 in 450 chance of smashing into Earth, but the space agency has now said it will instead hit the Moon, though the consequences could still be devastating

The astro-torts slowly went where no human nor reptile had gone before.

Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we thought we had discovered a strange and exciting new object in space. Using a huge radio telescope, we spotted a blindingly fast flash of radio waves that appeared to be c…

Australian start-up Cortical Labs and UK’s bit.bio have built CL1 with the aim of creating ‘synthetic biological intelligence’

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the cosmic web.

A newly discovered monstersaur roamed beneath the feet of giant dinosaurs.

NVIDIA's next big update with DLSS would likely be the switch towards a Transformer Model, which is expected to bring several improvements.

A cutting-edge submersible uncovered hidden Antarctic wonders—then mysteriously disappeared, leaving scientists baffled.

Unusual, tube-like structures in desert limestone have stumped researchers.

Canadian scientists found the oldest known rocks on Earth - dating back 4.16 billion years - shedding light on our planet’s earliest history.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has made a stunning discovery about the origins of disk galaxies, including our Milky Way.

Hubble Space Telescope reveals a stunning view of an active galactic center in UGC 11397.

For nine days, the Earth experienced seismic activity for 90 seconds. After extensive research, the reason for this phenomenon was finally discovered.

Families trying to memorialize to their lost loved ones in space were shocked to learn that those remains ended up at sea.

New propulsion technologies, including fusion drives and advanced solar sails, could make a mission to explore the distant dwarf planet Sedna a reality within the next decade.

Astronomers have discovered a rare, Jupiter-sized exoplanet at the edge of the Milky Way using gravitational microlensing, a space-time phenomenon predicted by Einstein.

Researchers have published a study that outlines the discovery of three new types of minerals never before catalogued on Earth.

Scientists have discovered the farthest-ever 'mini-halo,' a sea of charged particles around a distant galaxy cluster that could reveal unexpected insights about the ancient universe.

Beneath Oregon’s Malheur National Forest lies an organism of extraordinary size, stretching over thousands of acres and weighing tens of thousands of tons. Despite its vast presence, much about this mysterious life form remains unknown, sparking ongoing debat…

Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize, said that if he could pass on only one piece of scientific information to future generations, it would be that all things are made of atoms.

A look back at the week's activities for the Expedition 73 and Axiom Mission 4 crews.

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected evolutionary survival traits. Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event 66 million yea…