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Asteroid 2024 YR4 surprises scientists with 'unusual' shape and could slaphsot the moonThe once-dubbed "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 has surprised scientists with its 'unusual' shape as it rapidly rotates through space on a trajectory that could see it hit the moon.
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Winter sea ice cover lowest on recordThe Copernicus Climate Change Service has revealed that March 2025 saw the lowest sea ice maximum extent in the 47-year history of the satellite record – the warmest March on record for Europe.
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Cannibalistic spiderlings won't hunt their siblings even if they're starvingSocial signals stop young labyrinth spiders from hunting their siblings even when they are starving. However, the cannibalistic spiderlings quickly feed on the corpses of their brothers and sisters.
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Adorable dire wolf pups mark 'world's first de-extinction,' Colossal Biosciences saysDire wolves, made famous by HBO's Game of Thrones, have been extinct for around 12,500 years. But thanks to genetic engineers at biotech company Colossal Biosciences, these majestic predators are back.
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130,000-year-old baby mammoth goes under the knifeResearchers have performed a necropsy on a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth preserved in the Siberian permafrost.
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Giant tortoise becomes first-time mom at about 100 years oldA roughly 100-year-old western Santa Cruz Galápagos tortoise has become a mom for the first time after reproducing with a male of the same age at Philadelphia Zoo.
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Mind-reading brain implant 'streams' thoughts instantaneouslyResearchers have used a mind-reading brain implant to continuously play a paralyzed person's thoughts through a speaker, allowing them to talk again.
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1-in-1,000-year flood about to hit central USForecasters have warned of historic flooding in the central US this week, anticipating multiple bouts of heavy rainfall and extreme thunderstorms.
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China's Manus AI 'agent' could be our 1st glimpse at artificial general intelligenceChinese startup Butterfly Effect has unveiled what it claims is the first general AI agent capable of acting autonomously.
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'Blood moon' total lunar eclipse: Stunning photos of our celestial neighbor turning red over the AmericasSkywatchers snapped photos of the "blood moon" hovering above North and South America last night. Here's a gallery of images to celebrate the total lunar eclipse.
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Rare mammoth tusk found on West Texas ranchResearchers have excavated a rare mammoth tusk discovered by a hunter on a West Texas ranch.
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340 million-year-old 'nail tooth' shark found deep inside Mammoth Cave in KentuckyScientists have found ancient nail tooth shark fossils deep inside Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, revealing new information about a mysterious group of extinct predators.
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'Take shelter!': Tornado strikes Florida's Seminole County, destroying homes and interrupting live TV broadcastA tornado hit central Florida on Monday, destroying two homes, uprooting trees and disrupting a FOX TV show as it was tracking the storm live on air.
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'Winter is far from over': Polar vortex reversal could bring springtime snow to USThe polar vortex could be reversing in a sudden stratospheric warming event, with the potential to send Arctic air and storms to the central and eastern U.S.
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Saucer-like 'Winnebago' space capsule lands in Australia — marking 1st for commercial space industryVarda Space Industries' W-2 space capsule reentered Earth's atmosphere and touched down in the Australian outback last month, becoming the first commercial spacecraft to land Down Under.
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Massive Mesopotamian canal network unearthed in IraqResearchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.
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Global sea ice levels hit worrying new lowSea ice cover dropped to a record low across February 2025 as global warming continues to breach the 1.5 C Paris Agreement target, according to data from the Copernicus satellite.
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Golden scaleless cave fish discovered in China shows evolution in actionThe discovery of a golden scaleless fish in China is helping scientists understand how animals evolved to live in caves.
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Poisoning or bacterial meningitis could be behind dozens of mysterious deaths in the Democratic Republic of the CongoA cluster of deaths linked to a mysterious illness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo could be the result of a poisoning or bacterial meningitis, the WHO has suggested.
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Brain damage reported in 13% of kids who have died of flu this season, CDC findsA CDC report has revealed that nine of 68 of children who died of flu this year had brain damage, but it's unclear whether this influenza-associated encephalopathy is on the rise.
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Sunrise on the moon captured by Blue Ghost spacecraft after NASA and Firefly Aerospace announce successful lunar landingThe Blue Ghost spacecraft has taken its first images of the lunar surface as Firefly Aerospace and NASA celebrate a successful moon landing.
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Giant flying squirrels as big as cats once lived in TennesseeResearchers have identified a giant flying squirrel fossil from a cache of unusual animal remains dug out of an ancient sinkhole in Tennessee 25 years ago. The fossil sheds light on how flying squirrels reached North America.
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20,000-year-old evidence of ancient 'vehicles' discovered in New MexicoAncient footprints and drag marks at White Sands National Park in New Mexico suggest the earliest known Americans dragged wooden travois-like vehicles.
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Australia's 'upside down' dinosaur age had two giant predators, 120 million-year-old fossils revealA new study has revealed that "hug of death" megaraptorids and previously unknown carcharodontosaurs shared Australia's unique Antarctic dinosaur ecosystem during the Cretaceous.
