Scientists have created a stunning animation showing the suspected intermediate-mass black hole HLX-1 tearing apart a star, causing a bright tidal disruption event. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, Ralf Crawford (STScI)) Astronomers believe they have discovered an extremely rare type of…
Communities Based on Hadal Chemosynthesis – YouTube See more Ocean explorers have found thriving, alien-like communities of tube worms, mollusks and spiny white organisms on the floor of ocean trenches in the northwest Pacific Ocean. The discovery, made by a…
Lake Hillier is one of Australia’s most famous pink lakes. (Photo: Philip Thurston/Getty Images) Australia’s pink lakes are bodies of water that are home to rare pigment-producing microbes. The lakes are on average 10 times saltier than the ocean, attracting…
When Portrait of a Young Woman was first donated to the Allentown Museum of Art in 1961, it was thought to be a Rembrandt original. However, ten years later, it was determined to be a fake, although it may still…
In the final days of an archaeological dig in Springfield, 20 students helped uncover the foundations of the William Townsend House, the pioneer home he built upon his arrival in the region in 1832. Missouri State University archaeologists have discovered…
A new study shows for the first time that the perception of different temperatures occurs through different pathways in the brain. (Image credit: cometary via Getty Images) For the first time, scientists have fully uncovered the sensory pathway that allows…
Bolts of this size only became fully measurable with the introduction of satellite monitoring. (Image credit: Getty Images) The World Meteorological Organization has confirmed that lightning that swept across five Great Plains states has set a new record for the…
NASA is preparing for a 10-day Artemis II mission scheduled for April 2026 that will send a four-person crew around the moon to prepare for future manned landings on its surface. The space agency noted that the Artemis II mission…
Filmmakers have captured unique and terrifying footage of young spiders eating their mothers and other older relatives en masse. The footage shows more than 1,000 young African social spiders (Stegodyphus dumicola) leaving their nest in search of food. The babies…
NASA said Wednesday it has launched a unique radar system to map the Earth in collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organisation. The NASA-ISRO NISAR Synthetic Aperture Survey satellite was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Sriharikota island…