Science

Mars south pole “Inca City” with dark seasonal CO₂-jet spots (“spiders”) appearing on polar terrain, ESA Mars Express view.

It looked like just another photo of Mars’s south pole until hundreds of black spots started to appear, and someone at the ESA said, “This shouldn’t look like this”

December 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Supermassive black hole surrounded by a glowing accretion disk as space-time twists under extreme gravity

A supermassive black hole would have revealed its spin by “twisting” space-time and causing a disk and jet to wobble at the same time

December 30, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Artist’s impression of a blue-whale-size sea monster (giant ichthyosaur) stranded on a beach.

An 11-year-old girl saw enormous bones on a beach and, without knowing it, had just triggered the search for a “sea monster” the size of a blue whale

December 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Spinning black hole with glowing accretion disk, illustrating Einstein’s frame-dragging spacetime wobble

A “heartbeat” detected every 20 days in a shattered star, and the clue points to something Einstein predicted more than a century ago

December 29, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Illustration of two prehistoric sharks from 325 million years ago, similar to fossils discovered in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky.

They entered the longest cave in the world expecting rock and darkness and ended up finding two creatures from 325 million years ago

December 29, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Total solar eclipse above Earth’s horizon, illustrating the 2027 eclipse expected to be one of the longest of the century.

The longest solar eclipse of the century is coming in 2027: where and how to see it

December 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Cluster of honey bees packed tightly together on a hive frame to survive winter cold.

When winter arrives, bees and wasps do not disappear, but instead do something much more disturbing, and now we have discovered what that is

December 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Map showing the clockwise rotation of the Iberian Peninsula caused by tectonic stress between Africa and Eurasia

Scientists confirm that the Iberian Peninsula has been rotating for thousands of years, driven by deep and invisible forces within the Earth, without anyone noticing

December 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Giant dinosaur egg sculptures and a sauropod model outside Spain’s paleontology museum exhibit on titanosaur eggs

Beneath a hill, on a quiet hilltop, lay a 72-million-year-old nursery with giant 60-ton dinosaur hatchlings

December 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Ceramic jugs and plates scattered on the seafloor at the Camarat 4 16th-century shipwreck, over 2,500 meters deep.

A 16th-century ship is discovered by chance at a depth of more than 2,500 meters, completely rewriting the important history of the Mediterranean

December 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Cratered Moon surface in shadow, illustrating the lunar night side where a brief impact flash was recorded.

Something hit the Moon in the middle of the night, and a telescope captured it by pure chance

December 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
James Webb Space Telescope image highlighting supernova GRB 250314A with an inset callout

Scientists capture a flash of light that lasted only ten seconds and turns out to have reached Earth after a journey of 13 billion years

December 28, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Shaded backyard alleyway with trees and fences, symbolizing garden habitats where ants may produce superbug-killing chemicals.

These tiny creatures hiding in your garden could produce substances capable of killing superbugs in a matter of seconds

December 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The mystery of the extinction of the largest ape that ever walked the Earth has finally been solved

The mystery of the extinction of the largest ape that ever walked the Earth has finally been solved

December 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Retired NASA InSight lander on Mars seen from orbit as dust accumulates on its solar panels

NASA spacecraft spots dead robot on Mars surface

December 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The James Webb Telescope looked where everything seemed to have faded away and found an extra glow that matches the oldest supernova ever seen

The James Webb Telescope looked where everything seemed to have faded away and found an extra glow that matches the oldest supernova ever seen

December 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
A small world 66 times the distance between Earth and the Sun appears after almost 20 years of monitoring and now forces us to rewrite how the edge of the solar system was born

A small world 66 times the distance between Earth and the Sun appears after almost 20 years of monitoring and now forces us to rewrite how the edge of the solar system was born

December 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
On a peaceful morning, an avalanche of rock and ice triggered a tsunami over 650 feet high that shook sensors thousands of miles away

On a peaceful morning, an avalanche of rock and ice triggered a tsunami over 650 feet high that shook sensors thousands of miles away

December 27, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Collage of researchers behind the study showing a workaround to Bredt’s rule and “impossible” bridgehead double bonds.

What sounded like a mistake in class and was the rule that made you cross out “impossible” structures, scientists are now showing how to get around it without everything exploding

December 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Gnarled trunk and roots of an ancient olive tree in Crete beside a small building, still green with leaves.

In a quiet village in Crete, an olive tree between 2,000 and 4,000 years old continues to produce new leaves and small olives, as if time had stood still

December 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM