Harry Baker

Astronomers in Australia have detected the brightest and fastest-growing black hole to have existed in the last 9 billion years.

More than 500 little penguins have washed up dead on New Zealand beaches since May, and scientists aren't exactly sure why.

The discovery provides a glimmer of hope for the iconic white bears.

A first-of-its-kind study into the inner workings of Jupiter has revealed that the gas giant fed on baby planets as it grew.

NASA's perseverance rover has a "pet rock" that has been stuck in its front-left wheel for four months.

Researchers in Antarctica have discovered a hidden ecosystem more than 1,600 feet below the ice, which is filled with shrimplike creatures.

A dead baby thresher shark that washed up on a beach in the U.K. might have been aborted by its mother. Analysis of the juvenile's remains revealed that it had not fully developed.

The odds of an albino giant tortoise are 1 in 100,000.

A new optical illusion, the "expanding hole," tricks 86% of people into seeing a growing dark region in the center of the stationary image.

Researchers have discovered that 4,500-year-old seagrass meadows in Shark Bay, Western Australia, are actually the world's largest clone.

Archaeologists have unearthed penis graffiti and an explicit insult carved into a stone at a Roman fort in the UK. A translation of the phrase names one of the soldiers as a "shitter."

Engineers have designed a mini robot crab that can be made to walk sideways using lasers. The tiny eight-legged critter is the world's smallest remote-controlled robot.

A dead beaked whale with mysterious injuries on its face recently washed up on a California beach. Experts are unsure why the animal died or even which species it belongs to.

NOAA has announced that the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season is likely to be more active than average for the seventh year in a row.

There were potentially even more sharks in the swarm.

Local authorities suggest the young humpback did it on purpose.

The builders also fed the worm-infested meat to their dogs.

A 400-pound stingray was accidentally caught by fishers in the Mekong River in Cambodia. However, experts say that these monstrous rays can grow even bigger.

Octopuses are one of the most successful camouflaging animals in the world. But exactly how they pull off their rapid, high-resolution color changes is still a mystery.

13-year-old prodigy Elliott Tanner has graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in physics and mathematics.

A new study has provided the first physical evidence of ceramic containers being used as hand grenades around 900 years ago. The handheld explosives were likely used in battles during the Crusades.

Video of the ghostly cetacean was captured by a local teenager using a drone.

The 95-year-old broadcaster is just the fifth person to receive the honor.

NASA recently released an image of Mars' Airy-0 crater, which bears a remarkable resemblance to a human fingerprint and marks the Red Planet's prime meridian (zero degrees longitude).

A new study has revealed a brand new type of stellar explosion, known as a "micronovae," which are much less powerful and more irregular than similar blasts.