As Ice Melts in the Arctic, Some Deep-Sea Creatures Are Thriving
A new study suggests that deep-sea life reaps the benefits of icebergs’ castoffs — a rare silver lining as a warming pla...
Astronaut flexes his muscles mid-spacewalk | Space photo of the day for July 7, 2026
NASA astronaut Chris Williams recently flexed his muscles for a photo while on a spacewalk with fellow astronaut Jessica...
Chinese scientists find the best way to nuke an asteroid on its way to impact Earth
While no imminent asteroid threats have been found for Earth, Chinese scientists discussed two ways to deflect a space r...
SpaceX just launched the 1st-ever nuclear-powered commercial satellite
A satellite aboard SpaceX's Transporter-17 rideshare mission is the first commercially designed and operated spacecraft ...
The sun's atmosphere is way hotter than its surface. Scientists may finally know why
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has found charged grains of dust being carried on magnetic plasma waves in the Sun's outer atm...
I Wanted an Ecologically Responsible Garden. It Was Harder Than I Thought.
The native plant movement says that we can combat environmental disaster from our own backyards. Is it really so simple?
Colorful 'painting-like' ripples cover an ancient seafloor structure the Bahamas — Earth from space
A 2020 satellite photo shows off the ethereal beauty of submerged sandbanks and seagrass beds in the Great Bahama Bank. ...
Slug sleuths on the trail of gorging gastropods
Image source, Chris Ison / PAImage caption, More than 100 farms have contributed data to help find a way to map out slug...
Nature campaigners take on football club
Image source, BBC / Gavin KermackImage caption, Friends of Burlish Meadows co-founder Jason Kernohan said the site was h...
Scientists just created the most lifelike cell ever made in a lab — here's what it could accomplish
SpudCell is a new cell-like platform that can feed, grow and divide like a normal cell — but it's not yet a perfect re-c...
Neanderthals and modern humans may have shared culture 59,000 years ago in Turkey, study finds
Fossils, stone tools and seashells in Turkey show that Neanderthals and the Homo sapiens who moved in later had the same...
Even astronauts in space saw America 250 fireworks on the Fourth of July. See their ISS view of Los Angeles (video)
The U.S. just celebrated its 250th birthday, and the Americans living off the planet had a great view of some of the par...