This headless, kneeling skeleton was found in an ancient burial pit n central China’s Henan province. Thousands of years ago in ancient China, a ritual decapitation left the headless remains of a person on their knees at the bottom of…
Potter’s field on Hart Island in the Bronx, New York, has experienced an influx of burials during the coronavirus pandemic. (Shown here on April 9, 2020.) The coronavirus is not only controlling how we live, but increasingly what happens after…
With the recent news that two Californians died of COVID-19 in February, three weeks earlier than the United States’ first known death from the disease, it has become clear that the coronavirus was
The Arecibo Observatory captured this radar image of the big asteroid 1998 OR2 on April 18, 2020. 1998 OR2 will fly by Earth at a distance of 3.9 million miles (6.3 million kilometers) on April 29. We’ve now got a…
An artist’s depiction of a star brushing past a black hole. This black hole’s parents never told it not to play with its food. An astronomer thinks he’s spotted a stellar corpse known as a white dwarf sending out blazes…
Historic downtown Charleston. Last updated on May 1 at 6:35 p.m. E.T. South Carolina is reporting 6,258 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 256 deaths associated with the virus, according to the state’s Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC). As…