22+ hour, 13+ min ago   (649+ words) Something is quietly shifting deep beneath Italy, invisible to anyone standing above it. New research has now brought that hidden process to light, revealing an unexpected way Earth's crust continues to evolve. Deep beneath Italy, a slow geological process is…...

22+ hour, 13+ min ago   (552+ words) Scientists thought they'd finally found signs of flowing water on Mars, a discovery decades in the making. What's actually carving those channels turns out to be far stranger, and far colder, than anyone expected. Mars continues to surprise scientists with…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (483+ words) A body pulled from the Arctic ice in 1859 has finally been given a name. Researchers at the University of Waterloo have used DNA from living descendants to identify four more sailors from Sir John Franklin‘s doomed 1845 expedition, among them…...

1+ day, 6+ min ago   (506+ words) What archaeologists uncovered could complete a 23-foot giant. For nearly a century, one of ancient Egypt’s most recognizable pharaohs existed at Hermopolis Magna as half a statue. German archaeologist Günther Roeder pulled the lower portion of an enormous seated figure…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (633+ words) A record-sized iceberg separated from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier, creating one of the Arctic’s most unusual ice events in years. Researchers followed its path as the massive iceberg moved into open waters. A giant iceberg covering 29 square miles broke away from…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (573+ words) A 58-kilometer starship, 2,400 passengers, and 16 generations. Chrysalis asks what survival would really take. The 2,400 people aboard would leave Earth knowing they would never see it again. Their children would be born in deep space. Their grandchildren would grow old there....

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (492+ words) Mercury isn't the planet scientists thought it was. New research digging into old NASA data has uncovered something that had been hiding in plain sight for years, a clue about the planet's past that could change everything we thought we…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (651+ words) A Chinese satellite breakup has created a new debris field in a rare orbit where fragments may remain for centuries. A Chinese reconnaissance satellite has broken apart in a rare high-altitude orbit, creating dozens of tracked debris fragments that may…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (249+ words) In the sands south of Cairo, archaeologists just opened a tomb that has sat untouched for over four thousand years, and what they found inside wasn't just old. It was oddly, almost impossibly, well preserved. A Spanish-Egyptian mission has unearthed…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (575+ words) What happens to water when the usual rules no longer seem to apply? Scientists have recreated extraordinary conditions in the lab, uncovering a state of matter that could be hiding deep inside distant planets. Scientists have created a bizarre type…...