SpaceArtemis II took humans over 250,000 miles from Earth but now face a journey that stretches more than 200 million miles into deep space
APR 13, 2026
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EnergyThey built a solar plant across farmland until they discovered endangered species quietly living beneath the panels including a master of disguise and a living fossil”
APR 13, 2026
EarthScientists lowered a camera into an active volcano beneath the Pacific until they captured, for the first time, how the Earth releases its energy
APR 13, 2026
Decades after the Chernobyl disaster, the Elephant’s Foot is still changing as its structure shifts and releases dangerous radioactive dust
APR 12, 2026
SpaceAstronomers tracking distant objects suddenly witnessed a violent collision between two planets unlike anything seen before
APR 12, 2026
EarthAfter changing their diet and adding ‘bioactive’ supplements, goats are now able to heal themselves without medication
APR 12, 2026
TechnologyPhysicists have discovered a strange magnetic force and now believe matter may follow an unknown order
APR 12, 2026
SpaceElon Musk is trying to launch 15,000 satellites into orbit but has already lost the first one and contact with it, leaving it ‘silent’ in space
APR 11, 2026
SpaceSome violent stars are so dangerous they could wipe out life on a planet, and now NASA is sending a cube-shaped spacecraft to investigate
APR 11, 2026
EnergyThey built 86 wind-resistant turbines on an island, but the latest storm shut them all down and no one knows why
APR 11, 2026
EarthA biologist studying hedgehogs and chimpanzees has found a ‘secret language’ using their noses that humans have overlooked for decades
APR 11, 2026
EnergyBirds are starting to mistake solar panels for lakes and land on them, and experts warn it may be disrupting their migrations
APR 10, 2026
Human ScienceScientists have discovered an ‘age counter’ in our DNA and now believe our aging process may have been miscalculated from the start
APR 10, 2026
EarthGeologists can now detect volcanoes just hours before they erupt, but the warning may come too late
APR 10, 2026
EnergyA 475-foot wind turbine suddenly lost one of its blades without any storm and now investigators are searching for answers
APR 10, 2026
EarthA scary “vampire deer” with fangs thought gone for 70 years has reappeared and scientists fear it may be a warning sign of a species in trouble
APR 10, 2026
EnergyA whistleblower inside a nuclear plant raised concerns until it was revealed that seismic risk data may have been altered
APR 9, 2026
EarthMarine scientists began detecting a strange “acoustic fog” near New York until they saw whales fleeing the area in large numbers
APR 9, 2026
SpaceAstronomers noticed an asteroid flickering like it was “winking” until they realized its interior is fractured in ways never seen before
APR 9, 2026
Scientists exploring a vast coastline discovered a massive field of glass stretching for miles and now suspect an unknown meteorite caused it
APR 9, 2026
TechnologyPhysicists were studying empty space when flashes of “fake light” appeared where nothing should exist
APR 9, 2026
SpaceAstronomers studying a nearby corner of the Solar System have found a red dwarf star with four planets, and one of them could be habitable
APR 8, 2026
EarthA marine ecologist has found the ocean’s most feared whale ‘protecting’ its rivals in a rare display of altruism
APR 8, 2026
SpaceA fireball streaked across Texas, and now another is passing over Europe, waking five countries and drawing astronomers’ attention
APR 8, 2026
EarthRare pink rocks are emerging from the ground in Antarctica, and researchers believe a hidden island may lie beneath the ice
APR 8, 2026
Neuroscientists studying the lottery have found the brain processes winning differently, which may explain why people keep buying tickets every week
APR 8, 2026
EnergyThe United Kingdom is seeing record-breaking wind gusts and turning them into energy, but its wind power plants now risk bringing the country to a standstill
APR 7, 2026
Human ScienceScientists have discovered a calorie-burning switch in our bodies hidden within the outer layer of fat cells
APR 7, 2026
SpaceA ‘watermelon-sized’ meteorite crashed into a family’s home in Houston and now sits in their bedroom
APR 7, 2026
Archaeologists have found an ape fossil in Egypt and now believe we’ve been searching for our common ancestor in the wrong place all along
APR 7, 2026
EarthHealth experts have found ‘vampire’ bats carrying deadly diseases and warn it could already be circulating in Mexico
APR 7, 2026
We knew snow doesn’t stop solar panels, but now winter storms are destroying them in a completely different way
APR 6, 2026
TechnologyPhysicists have discovered a ‘mysterious proton’ that appears out of nowhere during experiments and vanishes in a fraction of a second
APR 6, 2026
EarthExplorers reviewing thousands of hours of underwater footage found octopuses hitting fish for no clear reason and now believe it may be a form of social punishment
APR 6, 2026
EnergyIn 1905, Einstein wrote a formula no one understood and now it is being used to teach robots to ‘swim’ through spacetime
APR 6, 2026
Scientists studying the universe’s first light have discovered a strange hidden twist that could point to an unknown dimension
APR 6, 2026
Earth240-million-year-old “warrior” crocodile ancestor found in Brazil rewrites what we know about life before dinosaurs
APR 5, 2026
EarthNear the South Orkneys, hundreds of whales are feeding together again but industrial krill trawlers are already there
APR 5, 2026
SpaceAstronomers tried to reconstruct a galaxy from 12 billion years ago until they realized it had grown by slowly devouring smaller galaxies
APR 5, 2026
EnergyA Dutch startup started experimenting with powdered iron in a lab until it turned into a fuel powerful enough to run factories and even rockets
APR 5, 2026
TechnologyHam radio operators began hearing strange Persian numbers broadcast twice a day until they traced the signal to a U.S. base in Germany and realized it may be a coded wartime message
APR 5, 2026
EnergyEngineers have chased wave energy efficiency for decades until spinning flywheels on the ocean surface finally broke the barrier
APR 4, 2026
EarthUSDA proposed more roads to control wildfires until new evidence showed they may actually accelerate how forests burn
APR 4, 2026
EarthScientists mapped what lies beneath the Great Salt Lake — A massive freshwater reservoir never seen before
APR 4, 2026
EnergyHydrogen has a hidden problem scientists couldn’t solve — Until they flipped a water molecule upside down
APR 4, 2026
They lifted a rock on a Caribbean island — And found the world’s smallest snake no one had seen in nearly 20 years
APR 4, 2026
Solar panels placed in the desert unexpectedly created the perfect conditions for a rare plant to multiply
APR 3, 2026
SpaceScientists were studying the familiar Ring Nebula until they uncovered a massive iron structure as large as 470 million Earths
APR 3, 2026
EarthScientists looking back 500 million years found early life may have breathed a rare form of oxygen before it filled the planet
APR 3, 2026
EnergyRiver turbines were designed to scare fish away — Instead, rainbow trout stayed and began playing with them in ways experts didn’t expect
APR 3, 2026
