Six Years of Stellar Eclipses Suggest Pluto’s Atmosphere Stayed Stable Until About 2021 Before Beginning Its First Measurable Decline
Jupiter’s Hydrogen Could Keep Earth Bright for 9.1 Million Billion Years After the Sun Becomes Too Hot for Life
Violent Supernova Kicks Sent Some Milky Way Black Holes Beyond the Galaxy While Others Drifted 2.5 Times Higher Than the Stellar Disk
Nearly Complete Gobi Desert Fossil Overturns 40 Years of Ancient Mammal Evolution Built on Teeth Alone
520-Million-Year-Old Fossil From South China Preserves the Earliest Known Cephalopod Siphuncle, Bridging a 30-Million-Year Evolutionary Gap
After More Than 7,000 Artifacts, Students Unearth a Palm-Sized Pot Left Whole Inside a Mysterious Spanish-Era Structure in Florida
Quantum Coherence Vanished and Reappeared at the Exact Moments Predicted by the Riemann Zeta Function’s Mysterious Zeros
Discarding More Than 99.94% of Quantum Computations Let a 97-Qubit Processor Certify a Classically Hard Result
Deepest Images Yet Show IC 1101’s Vast Stellar Halo Dissolving Into Diffuse Cluster Light Across More Than 600 Kiloparsecs
Archaeologists Uncovered Two Possible Premature Twins Sealed Inside an Abandoned Roman Latrine for More Than 1,100 Years
Even active gene enhancers spent much of their time hidden inside nucleosomes, with single-molecule measurements showing the typical enhancer was fully accessible in only about 48% of DNA molecules at any given moment
Brightening marine clouds over just 7% of Earth in simulations weakened the 2015–2016 El Niño enough to bring the tropical Pacific close to neutral—but it also hastened the arrival of La Niña
Hidden ice beneath the Moon’s darkest south polar craters could make seismic waves race at up to 4,000 meters per second while leaving behind vast underground shadow zones
When lasers stripped away the Amazon’s dense canopy, they revealed hundreds of ancient geometric monuments that had been hiding in plain sight for centuries
When researchers noticed that three ancient skulls were unusually lopsided, they found themselves looking not at how these humans lived or died, but at what their first months of life may have been like
Scientists uncovered traces of two ancient human lineages that left no sequenced genomes behind, yet fragments of their DNA are still being carried by people today
Buried just five feet apart for 40,000 years, two miniature ivory birds reveal an Ice Age artist capturing one bird at rest and another with its wings spread
Curiosity has reached a Martian landscape where a sea of geometric cracks stretches beyond the rover’s view, wrapping around a 20-foot-tall butte in an ancient geological puzzle
As rising reservoir waters closed in on an ancient Angolan settlement, archaeologists uncovered a pottery urn holding the country’s only known cremation beside centuries-old stone graves that had remained hidden for more than 500 years
Strange faint rings appeared across Venus in polarized light, and a forgotten telescope observation may have captured a hidden atmospheric phenomenon no one knew to look for
A tiny speck of light emerging only 52 milliarcseconds from the blazing face of Betelgeuse may finally explain why one of the night sky’s most famous stars has spent decades fading and brightening on a mysterious six-year rhythm that astronomers could never fully account for
Astronomers Finally Found a Tidal Disruption Event Far from Any Galactic Center, Revealing a Long-Suspected Wandering Black Hole That Shouldn’t Be There
Strange 511,000-Electron-Volt Glows Beyond the Milky Way May Be the First Hints That Other Galaxies Are Producing the Same Positron Signal Long Seen in Our Own
1.43-Million-Year-Old Footprints in Kenya Reveal Surprisingly Large Early Hominins, Unusual Walking Mechanics, and Possible Evidence of Adult Males Traveling Together
Discovery of Enlarged Spinal Openings in Three Extinct Smilodon Fossils Suggests Rare Neurological Tumors Affected Ice Age Predators Near the End of the Pleistocene
Injectable Hydrogel Carrying IL-4-Activated Astrocyte Vesicles Helped Mice Regrow Blood Vessels in Stroke-Damaged Brain Tissue and Regain Near-Normal Movement
Brain Study Reveals Why Both Activating and Blocking the Same Obesity Drug Target Can Reduce Weight by Acting in Different Brain Regions
Distractions Can Shrink Working Memory to Just One Usable Goal, Revealing Why We Rethink Plans Instead of Resuming Them After Interruptions
Ancient Australian Fossil Rewrites the Family Tree of Marsupial Predators With the Earliest Known True Dasyurid Ever Found
Atlantic Ocean Climate Shifts May Have Helped Drive the Late Bronze Age Collapse by Triggering Extreme Mediterranean Drought
