Saturn's hexagon, as seen by the Cassini probe. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Hampton University) The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered strange “dark beads” above a four-rayed star in Saturn's atmosphere. These astonishing structures are unlike anything scientists have seen before, and…
Astronomers from the Solar Astronomy Laboratory of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences have announced that Comet Lemmon (its full name is C/2025 A6), which was discovered in January of this year, will make its closest…
The worm Paralvinella hessleri is bright yellow due to the accumulation of arsenic in its skin cells, where the toxin reacts with sulfide from vent fluids to form orpiment, an orange-yellow pigment. (Image credit: Wang H, et al., 2025, PLOS…
Don't you think that “you and only you” defines the essence of dance? Remember when you started dancing? How old were you? A yard, a house with a gramophone in the open window, a dance floor where adults waltz (for…
An artist's rendering of Joaquinraptor casali, a newly discovered megaraptor from Argentina. (Image courtesy of Andrew McAfee, Carnegie Museum of Natural History.) A new king of the dinosaurs has emerged in South America. This newly discovered apex predator, named Joaquinraptor…
