An image from NASA’s Cassini probe, taken Sept. 23, 2006, shows a pair of hydrocarbon lakes on Titan. Saturn’s most Earth-like moon looks a bit less likely to host life, thanks to quantum mechanics, the weird rules that govern subatomic…
The man had been in there far too long, John Struczynski thought. Twenty minutes had elapsed since he had entered the shower facility in the Emirates Lounge for business and first-class passengers at Birmingham International Airport, in the West Midlands…
When Lendrum was apprehended in June 2018, he was carrying rare falcon eggs strapped to his body in a custom sling. Two grinning men pose for a video camera in front of a helicopter: “We’re going on a tour,” one…
The newly discovered “Yaravirus” contains genes that have never been seen in any other viruses. Our planet is teeming with mysterious microbes. Now, in the waters of an artificial lake, scientists may have discovered one of the most mysterious of…
A bird’s-eye view of the temple, taken at the end of the 2013 excavation season. The discovery of an Iron Age temple near Jerusalem has upended the idea that the ancient Kingdom of Judah, located in what is now southern…
A Russian Soyuz 2.1v rocket launches a classified military satellite into orbit from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russian on Nov. 25, 2019. The satellite can apparently track other satellites in orbit. A U.S. spy satellite is being trailed by…