Some meteors leave trails lasting up to an hour. Now we may know why
To leave a lasting trail, meteors need to aim low. A new survey of shooting stars shows that meteors that […]
Zapping sand to create rock could help curb coastal erosion
Shorelines worldwide have always been vulnerable to coastal erosion, a phenomenon rendered more ominous by rising sea levels that accompany
A distant quasar may be zapping all galaxies around itself
One of the farthest known quasars seems to have shut down the creation of new stars in all the galaxies
Extreme heat and rain are fueling rising cases of mosquito-borne diseases
When it rains, it pours. And when it pours, mosquitoes pop up. A series of storms slammed the northeastern United
The nearest midsized black hole might instead be a horde of lightweights
Contrary to a previous report, there’s no evidence of an intermediate-mass black hole in Omega Centauri, the Milky Way’s most
Mantle waves buoy continents upward and bedeck them with diamonds
For billions of years, the continents have cruised across Earth’s surface like tectonic vessels, but they have not survived unscathed.
The historic ‘Wow!’ signal may finally have a source. Sorry, it’s not aliens
One of the most compelling potential signs of extraterrestrial communication might have an astrophysical explanation. Called the “Wow!” signal, the
Fossils of an extinct animal may have inspired this cave art drawing
African rock art depicting a mythical tusked creature may mirror the look of fossils of real-life ancient mammal relatives called
2 spacecraft caught the waves that might heat and accelerate the solar wind
A lucky alignment of two sun-studying spacecraft may have finally solved a decades-old solar mystery. Data from NASA’s Parker Solar
The Large Hadron Collider exposes quarks’ quantum entanglement
Quantum entanglement has made its way to the top. Scientists have measured the strange quantum phenomenon of entanglement in top