Ghost Particles Deep Underground Are Rewriting What We Know About Earth’s Core
A Planet That Heats Itself Unevenly Beneath a Canadian mine, more than a mile underground, scientists have been hunting some of the most elusive particles in the universe — and what they found may force a complete rethink of how our planet works from the…
SpaceX Is Almost Ready to Launch Its Massive Starship Rocket From Florida
A Historic Pad Gets a Historic Upgrade SpaceX is working hard to get historic Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ready for launches of its Starship megarocket. This is no ordinary construction project. The centerpiece of the Florida expansion is Launch Complex 39A —…
Scientists Discover a Black Hole in Our Galaxy Firing a Particle Jet Straight at Earth
A Long-Theorized Cosmic Object Finally Found — and It’s Aimed Right at Us An international team of astronomers has finally managed to discover a class of object whose existence has been theorized for decades but never proven: a microblazar within our own Milky Way galaxy….
A Faint Dot in Old Data May Be the Solar System’s Missing Ninth Planet
A Ghost in the Infrared Archives For decades, astronomers have suspected something massive is lurking at the dark edge of our solar system — an unseen world tugging on distant objects with its gravity, leaving fingerprints everywhere but never showing its face. Now, a PhD…
Ancient Oklahoma Crater Is 100 Million Years Younger Than Scientists Thought
A Buried Secret Beneath the Oklahoma Plains Beneath the quiet town of Ames, Oklahoma, nearly two miles underground, lies a scar left by one of the most violent events in North American geological history. The crater spans about 10 miles in diameter and is buried…
Ice Age DNA Rewrites the Story of Who First Settled the Americas
A Long-Standing Mystery Gets a Clearer Answer One of the most enduring mysteries in the history of the Americas is when the first people arrived — and despite decades of debate drawing on genetic, archaeological, and environmental evidence, no consensus has ever been reached. Now,…
Simple Underwater Umbrellas Are Helping Coral Reefs Survive Deadly Ocean Heat
A Low-Tech Solution to a High-Stakes Problem Around the world, marine heatwaves have put coral at serious risk. When ocean temperatures get too hot, stressed corals expel the microscopic algae that live in their tissues, causing them to turn white — a process known as…
Sunlight and Water May Be All It Takes to Make Cheap Clean Hydrogen
A Breakthrough Built From Sulfur and Sunlight Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a new family of materials that use light to produce hydrogen from water, opening the door to new ways of converting the sun’s rays into clean energy. The discovery, published in…
How “Jumping Genes” Helped Ants Conquer the Earth After the Dinosaurs Vanished
The Survivors No One Expected When an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs, it triggered one of the most catastrophic mass extinctions in planetary history. But while the giants fell, something tiny was quietly gearing up for a…
New Study Slashes the Solar System’s Life Expectancy by Billions of Years
The Outer Solar System’s Death Sentence For centuries, astronomers assumed the far reaches of our solar system — the realm of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — were essentially immortal on any human timescale. Even accounting for the Sun’s eventual death, scientists believed the giant…
