Emergency workers exit the Diamond Princess cruise ship where thousands remain quarantined. It’s the stuff of nightmares: You’re trapped on a ship where a mysterious virus is swiftly infecting those onboard. But this is real life: Over 3,500 people remain…
White dwarfs are tightly compressed balls of glowing gas left after some stars die. Humans have been searching for signs of extraterrestrial (ET) life for decades. We’ve been listening carefully for strange radio signals, looking for signatures of the artificial…
A pair of images show two views of Pallas with its pock-marked surface. New images reveal that one of the strangest asteroids in the solar system is also the most covered in craters. Pallas, at 318 miles (512 kilometers) in…
Mucus produced by these upside-down jellyfish can be seen floating above their frilly arms. Upside-down jellyfish pulse on the ocean floor, their frilly arms stretched skyward as they release venom-filled blobs of mucus into the surrounding water, where the slime…
“Gimme that Cheeto, Brian, I saw it first!” Up to 5 million passengers scurry around the London Underground every day, and that’s not even including the rodents. City officials suspect that some 500,000 mice call the tunnels and terminals below…
An illustration of a giant male (front) and female (left) Stupendemys geographicus out swimming for a snack. An 8-million-year-old turtle shell unearthed in Venezuela measures nearly 8 feet (2.4 meters) long, making it the largest complete turtle shell known to…