The first major astronomical event visible in 2026 is a total lunar eclipse, or “blood moon.” This phenomenon is highly prized by stargazers because the entire lunar disk takes on a reddish color for a few moments.
The total lunar eclipse will occur on March 3. It will be clearly visible in…
Some dinosaurs were scaly, some were covered in bony plates of armor, and others were even feathered. But now paleontologists have discovered a new species with a type of skin covering that’s never been seen in dinosaurs before: hollow spikes.
Discovered in northeastern China, the new…
In places like Chernobyl and Fukushima, where nuclear disasters have flooded the environment with dangerous radiation, it makes sense that life might evolve ways to survive it.
But one of the most radiation-resistant organisms ever discovered doesn’t come from anywhere radioactive at all. An…
Astronomers have just identified what appears to be a cosmic anomaly: a faint galaxy with so few visible stars that, according to calculations, as much as 99.9 percent of its mass is dark matter. The remaining 0.1 percent is conventional matter.
This galaxy, located about 300 million light-years…
On Jan. 28, 2026, NASA announced that its James Webb…
A 2023 law championed by Republicans requires the CDC have a director confirmed by the Senate. For months, though, it’s had only acting directors—and the White House won’t say when that will change.
Deep inside the Greenland ice sheet, radar images have revealed strange, plume-like structures distorting the layering deposited over eons.
Now, more than a decade after their discovery, scientists think they have figured out what causes these structures, and it’s a real hum-dinger. According…
