There are currently more than 5,800 known exoplanets outside our solar system. Artist Martin Vargic depicts some of them above. (Image courtesy of Martin Vargic (used with permission)) Space is truly enormous. There are about 100 billion stars in our…
On Saturday, SpaceX launched Starshield satellites for the National Reconnaissance Office from California, followed 12 hours later by 21 Starlink satellites from Florida. The Falcon 9 lifted off at 5:25 a.m. Pacific time from Vandenberg Space Force Base’s Pad 4E.…
Uturuncu is one of many volcanoes on the Bolivian Altiplano, which sits above the Altiplano-Puna magma body. (Photo courtesy of John Blandy, University of Oxford) A ‘zombie’ volcano in Bolivia is erupting in its sleep despite being dormant for hundreds…
Scientists have long believed that all large galaxies harbor colossal supermassive black holes at their centers. This means that the failure to detect such a cosmic giant at the center of the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, also known as Messier 83…
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Crocodiles in the Caribbean are more diverse than previously thought. (Photo courtesy of McGill University) Researchers have discovered two new species of crocodiles that live on isolated islands in the Caribbean. Both species are critically endangered, according to a new…
An updated version of the Hubble image of the Eagle Nebula, first released in 2005, using state-of-the-art imaging technology. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll) Few images from the Hubble Space Telescope can match this one. A huge column…
Scientists collected samples of fish living in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean and in trenches in the Indian Ocean. (Image credit: Han Xu et al. (2025) Evolution and genetic adaptation of fish to deep-sea regions. Cell, Volume 188,…
Mark Carney could make history as Canada prepares to elect a new government. Although he leads the party that has governed the world’s second-largest country since 2015, he is a completely new face in politics. In fact, he had never…
Tyrannosaurus rex, shown here running in a virtual model, was far from the fastest dinosaur. (Image courtesy of William Sellers) Until the mid-1960s, the general consensus was that all dinosaurs were cold-blooded and slow-moving creatures. However, in the summer of…