Tiny larval sunfish look nothing like the adults. Scientists have identified the babies of one of the world’s biggest fishes — the mola, or sunfish — and the youngster is so small that you could easily fit a dozen of…
For astronauts preparing to spend a long summer vacation on Mars, hats and umbrellas might not be enough to protect them from the sun’s harsh rays. And just like beachgoers slathering on sunscreen, explorers on the moon or Mars may…
For the first time ever, astronomers have directly imaged multiple planets orbiting a sunlike star. The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile photographed two giant planets circling TYC 8998-760-1, a very young analogue of our own sun…
In this episode of Life’s Little Mysteries, we’ll take a closer look at a mysterious process that has shaped life on Earth over hundreds of millions of years: evolution. What is evolution, how exactly does it work, and is it…
UFO hunters have shared official NASA photos of what they believe is a black cube orbiting the Sun. The supposed appearance of an “alien cube” near the Sun has sparked a viral UFO frenzy. One Twitter user said: “With the…
Is consciousness uniquely human? Or do other living things have varying degrees of it? Humans once assumed our planet was the physical center of the solar system, so it’s no surprise that we also think highly of consciousness, the apparently…