Astronomers hope to find clues to the origins of the Solar System in the unexpected nature of the object’s icy composition.

If the buoyant force of a fluid is greater than the downward force (its mass times the gravitational field strength) of an object placed within it, the object will float. But objects that are more ...

Possibly the most important act of Jimmy Carter’s presidency has been almost entirely forgotten, even by his supporters.

It has been just over three years since JWST was launched into space and in that time, the telescope has dramatically ...

Dark watchers appear when a person creates a shadow that then gets a leg up by casting onto a cloud or mist. It results in an enormous silhouette that looks really far away because, from the position ...

A desert might not be the first place you’d expect to be a hive of activity, but northwestern China’s Kubuqi Desert is ...

Let’s be clear – we’re talking about the most amount of teeth found inside the mouth of an animal at any one time, not over ...

P lanting trees has been a staple in urban landscaping for decades, valued for its aesthetic appeal and ability to improve ...

Spoonbills made a triumphant return to Cambridgeshire for the first time since the 17 th century in 2024. They were once wiped out due to hunting and habitat degradation as wetlands were drained, but ...

A round every 80 years, the system we call T Coronae Borealis experiences a sudden increase in brightness. It becomes up to 1,585 times brighter, something that earned it the nickname of “The Blaze ...

For this reason, Axial Seamount was chosen as the site of the world’s first underwater volcano observatory, with the first ...

There are an estimated 2,500 outbreaks of norovirus in the US each year, most of which fall between November and April.