Strange Radio Signal From Deep Space Baffles Scientists We’ve received a strange signal from across the galaxy, and astronomers are struggling to understand what it means. They know what’s emitting […]

Strange Metal From Beyond Our Planet Found in Ancient Treasure Stash Amidst a cache of glittering golden treasures from the Iberian Bronze Age, a pair of corroded objects might be the most precious of all. A […]

Scientists Confirm The Planet Vulcan Doesn't Actually Exist After All We can officially say goodbye to the real-life version of the fictional Vulcan homeworld. Astronomers have found that signals interpreted as […]

First Glimpse Inside Bizarre Planet Reveals What Makes It So Puffy For the first time, the JWST has given us a detailed breakdown of the interior of a world outside our Solar System. The extremely strange […]

Mysterious 'Anomaly' Buried Near Giza Pyramids Baffles Archaeologists Slowly but surely, the ground is regurgitating its secrets. The history that lies buried beneath the swirling sands of time yields, piece by […]

Bioluminescence Evolved in The Abyss 540 Million Years Ago, Study Finds In the darkest corners of the planet, where the light of the Sun never touches, eerie glows can yet be found, illuminating the shadows. This […]

Vikings Filed Grooves Into Their Teeth as an Unusual Form of ID Humans have modified their bodies in various ways throughout history, tattooing, piercing, scarring, implanting, or even deforming parts of their […]

NASA's About to Make a Big Announcement About Mars. Here's What We Know We’re about to find out what’s happening with NASA’s beleaguered Mars Sample Return mission. In just a few hours – at 1PM EDT – NASA is going to […]

Physicists Capture Elusive 4D 'Ghost' in CERN Particle Accelerator There’s a specter haunting the tunnels of a particle accelerator at CERN. In the Super Proton Synchrotron, physicists have finally measured […]

First-of-Its-Kind 'Quantum Tornado' Achieves Record-Breaking Black Hole Mimicry : ScienceAlert A superfluid vortex controlled in a lab is helping physicists learn more about the behavior of black holes. A whirlpool generated in helium […]

Study Reveals How Ancient Humans Escaped Climate Extinction 900,000 Years Ago Some 900,000 years ago, humans nearly went extinct. According to the results of a genomics study published last year, modern humanity’s […]

A Mysterious Wave-Like Structure in Our Galaxy Found to Be Slowly Slithering Gazing out upon the apparently unchanging sea of stars around us, it’s tempting to think of the Milky Way galaxy as static and everything within […]

Mysterious Rings Around Space Rock Might Be Carved by a Secret Moon : ScienceAlert The secret lives of minor planets may be even more complex and fascinating than we thought. Scientists have discovered that a pair of gossamer […]

Life on Earth May Have Been Born in The Chaos of Volcanic Lightning : ScienceAlert The chaos of lightning crackling through the sky has been speculated to play a key role in freeing elements like phosphorus, making it more accessible […]

Something Strange Happens to Wolves Infected by Infamous Mind-Altering Parasite : ScienceAlert A study of 26 years’ worth of wolf behavioral data, and an analysis of the blood of 229 wolves, has shown that infection with the parasite […]

Archaeologists Hunting For Cleopatra's Tomb Found a "Geometric Miracle" Tunnel : ScienceAlert Underneath a temple in the ancient ruined city of Taposiris Magna on the Egyptian coast, archaeologists uncovered a vast, spectacular tunnel that […]

New Evidence Highlights a Serious Flaw in Our Perception of Autism : ScienceAlert The more we learn about autism, the more egregious our old misconceptions seem. New research conducted on mice shows how male and female brains may be […]