1+ hour, 7+ min ago   (351+ words) More than 130 footprints frozen in stone for 150 million years are giving scientists a front-row seat to a dinosaur’s ancient journey. Once reconstructed, the trail revealed how a 30-ton giant turned, walked, and moved in ways scientists never expected. Instead of…...

1+ hour, 37+ min ago   (514+ words) A 16th-century wreck found 2,567 metres below the Mediterranean stunned archaeologists with cargo that appears almost frozen in time. In southern France, off the coast of Ramatuelle in eastern France, French authorities have confirmed that they’ve located a 16th-century merchant ship…...

15+ hour, 14+ min ago   (696+ words) A robot submarine found bizarre terraces, teardrop pits and hidden fractures beneath Antarctic ice, then vanished without a trace on its next mission. Under hundreds of meters of floating Antarctic ice, a bright orange robot was traveling where ships, satellites,…...

18+ hour, 4+ min ago   (629+ words) A 2-watt laser pulled off a satellite downlink from 36,000 km up, using a new signal trick that pushed performance far beyond earlier results. A laser beam sent from geostationary orbit has to travel roughly 36,000 km before it reaches Earth. Yet…...

19+ hour, 17+ min ago   (920+ words) August’s Sturgeon Moon reaches its peak on August 28, bringing a late-summer lunar tradition back into the night sky. The precise instant of a full Moon occurs when the Moon lies opposite the Sun as viewed from Earth, but observers do…...

21+ hour, 7+ min ago   (358+ words) Thousands of barrels have been sitting deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean for decades, hidden from the world above. Scientists have now returned to this remote site with new technology to uncover what has been happening on the seafloor. Scientists have…...

21+ hour, 37+ min ago   (220+ words) A giant black hole disguised as a star? The James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered a new type of cosmic object from the early universe, revealing a massive black hole hidden inside a gas envelope. Astronomers have identified a…...

17+ hour, 41+ min ago   (506+ words) A skull discovered in China in 1933 remained unknown for decades before scientists could unlock its secrets. New research has finally revealed why this ancient fossil matters so much. A fossilized skull found in northern China and hidden away for 85 years…...

19+ hour, 43+ min ago   (381+ words) Scientists studying the vampire squid recently made a surprising discovery that appeared to challenge what was known about this unusual deep-sea squid. A vampire squid species announced in 2024 has now disappeared from the scientific record as a separate species. Researchers…...

1+ day, 37+ min ago   (598+ words) It survived 70 million years underground, and when paleontologists finally uncovered it live on camera, they realized this egg might be the only one of its kind ever found on the continent. Argentine paleontologists have uncovered a nearly intact 70-million-year-old fossilized…...