Giant groundsel (Dendrosenecio kilimanjari) is a unique plant found only on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. (Photo credit: Autumn Sky Photography via Alamy) On the slopes of the mid-height of this mountain grows an unusual plant not seen anywhere else…
(Image credit: Tobias Rötzsch) When you look up at the sky on a clear night shortly after one of SpaceX's many Falcon 9 rocket launches, you might notice a bright line of lights moving rapidly across the sky. The phenomenon,…
The number of spacecraft orbiting the Earth is rapidly increasing thanks to the development of private satellite “mega constellations”. (Image credit: Shutterstock) The number of satellites orbiting Earth has more than doubled in the past five years and is likely…
The James Webb Space Telescope has identified a black hole-powered quasar (pink dot in center of image) that has been around since the first billion years after the Big Bang. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, S. Lilly (ETH Zurich), D.…
A panoramic view of the Constantiaberg Mountains near Cape Town in South Africa. A new study suggests the country has been steadily rising between 2012 and 2020
The artifacts are believed to have been used in fertility rituals by the Tlacotepehua people during the Postclassic period, which spanned 950 to 1520