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The floor is literally lava on a nearby exoplanet, new telescope observations show. Given its small size and strange history, one team of scientists suggests planet L 98-59 d's molten ocean and odd atmosphere might represent an entirely new category ...

The Earth's rotation has never been perfectly stable; the spin has changed significantly throughout history. Even slight changes on the planet, from melting ice sheets to flux in the Moon's gravitational effects, can make days longer or shorter. But ...

The warm waters of Mexico and Texas are home to a small fish that has produced nothing but daughters for over 100,000 years. Essentially, the offspring are the exact genetic copy of their mother, with no father involved. The fish in focus is the ...

For the first time, astronomers claim they've found a way to reconstruct a galaxy's entire 'life story' - from a single snapshot in time.

In April 2023, local fishermen off the coast of eastern Spain, incidentally caught something massive within the country's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Genetic analysis confirmed its species as Carcharodon carcharias, the great white shark.

Humanity may be one step closer to space-mining and cosmic self-sustainability, thanks to a secret, tiny weapon: microbes.

Baby caterpillars have figured out how to get themselves the royal treatment in certain ant colonies - getting carried around like precious cargo, fed on demand, guarded and being rescued from danger. But why would ants give this celebrity status to ...

For more than 150 years, vertebrate vision has been understood as a two-part system: rods for low-light conditions, and cones for bright light and color. That tidy division is now under the microscope, as researchers from the University of Queensland ...

Imagine it's a regular Tuesday morning and you're in Antarctica. Your eyes meet the sky, and the blue is so vivid it feels electric. The air is so clean you can just about taste it. Now, picture a dust storm over the Himalayas; you squint, trying to ...

During the last ice age, when glaciers spread across the northern world, ancient humans had some serious adapting to do; our species wouldn't survive without developing new ways to keep warm. We got there by improving the ways we clothed ourselves .. ...