1+ week, 4+ day ago   (509+ words) A new theoretical kind of extraterrestrial life could survive the harsh acid clouds of Venus, according to MIT researchers. Based on recent evidence, it may be time to cast a wider net in the search for extraterrestrial life and look…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (367+ words) Long before the age of the Pharaohs and the monumental construction that defined the ancient Egyptian world, the famed Gift of the Nile was once a sea filled with hungry monsters. Today, evidence of these ancient aquatic beasts can still…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (602+ words) For more than a century, visitors to America’s beloved Yellowstone National Park have reported odd, fleeting sounds that seem to center on the famous park’s largest lakes. With descriptions that range from a noise resembling the steady humming of bees…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (708+ words) A massive chunk of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier has broken away, forming an iceberg the size of Manhattan in what scientists say is the most significant Arctic calving event recorded in years. As the dramatic event unfolded, the European Space Agency’s…...

3+ week, 18+ hour ago   (543+ words) One of planetary defense‘s biggest opportunities will come as the asteroid Apophis makes its tight flyby of our planet on April 13, 2029, allowing international space missions to interact with the near-Earth object. Asteroids this size only approach this close to…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (371+ words) The Grand Canyon, one of America’s most famous landmarks, may have been created when an ancient supercontinent cracked apart, according to new research. Roughly 800 million years ago, the supercontinent Rodinia broke apart in a gradual process, taking close to 300 million…...