“Once in a Blue Moon” may not apply to lunar exploration, it seems: NASA announced May 19 that Blue Origin’s Blue Moon will be the…
Tesserae are regions of deformed venusian terrain that appear bright in this image, winding across the center of the planet’s disk. This composite…
The Earth exists in a dangerous environment. Cosmic bodies, like asteroids and comets, are constantly zooming through space and often crash into our…
Odds are you’ve probably seen a European starling, whether it was just one bird wheeling its way across the sky or a huge…
7,000-year-old Native American burial site found off Florida The site was discovered by an amateur diver who was looking for shark teeth but…
Storms uncover precious marble cargo from a 1,800-year-old Mediterranean shipwreck in Israel Numerous rare marble artifacts have been found at the site of…
Cardinals are probably on most people’s list as their favorite backyard bird. The Northern Cardinal is a year-round resident of the eastern half…
In a stunning discovery, a three-thousand-year-old ancient Egyptian figurine of the god Osiris has been unearthed in a former Nazi SS hospital in…
This artist’s concept shows a black hole surrounded by a maelstrom of circling debris, as well as a powerful jet of hot plasma…
Located some 28 billion light-years away (thanks to the expanding universe), this 12.9-billion-year-old star, named Earendel, is between 50 and 500 times as…
A lone black hole gives off no light – but its gravity does distort the path of light traveling around it.Ute Kraus (background…
Star formation in the 500 light-years around Earth is being driven by a cosmic bubble known as the Local bubble, as seen in…