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Solar storm slams Mars in eerie new NASA footage
A powerful solar storm in May 2024 created auroras on Mars and provided scientists with crucial information that could aid future...
Gilgamesh flood tablet: A 2,600-year-old text that's eerily...
The baked clay tablet tells the tale of an epic flood.
Qinling panda: The shrunken pandas that diverged 300,000...
Qinling pandas were officially recognized as a subspecies in 2005, but the mystery of their brown fur was only resolved almost two...
Why does the sun make people sneeze?
People who sneeze in bright lights, like the sun, may have autosomal dominant compelling helio-ophthalmic outburst syndrome, or ACHOO.
Orangutan 'stoically waits' for tourists in award-winning...
Aaron Gekoski's image of an orangutan sitting patiently at Safari World in Bangkok has won the 2024 Environmental Photography Award...
Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly...
Astronomers have been scouring the outer solar system for signs of a hypothetical ninth planet for almost a decade, without success....
How long would it take to reach Planet 9, if we ever find...
Some experts believe that the solar system's hypothetical ninth planet could be just a few years away from being discovered. If this...
8 strange objects that could be hiding in the outer solar...
The outer solar system is a vast and mysterious place that could be harboring hidden objects we know almost nothing about — from the...