On March 16, 2020, researchers aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's ship Falkor stumbled upon a beautiful *giant* Apolemia, a type of siphonophore, in the Indian Ocean off weste...

The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai — an underwater volcano located 40 miles (65km) north of  Nuku'alofa, the capital of the Kingdom of  Tonga — has erupted a couple of times over the...

While birthdays are always a cause for celebration, Kane Tanaka's was especially so. On January 1, 2022, the Japanese supercentenarian turned 119, extending her record as the wo...

On November 25, 2021, an estimated 46 million unlucky turkeys will become the centerpieces of  Thanksgiving dinner tables across the US. However, two gorgeous white toms — Peanu...

A rare manuscript co-authored by German-American physicist Albert Einstein and Swiss-Italian engineer Michele Besso just became the most expensive autographed scientific paper e...

Researchers have long suspected that Mars was once home to several rivers, lakes, and perhaps even oceans. But while they have been able to detect ice, and even some salty lakes...

The XXIV Olympic Winter Games will officially start with a grand opening ceremony at the National Stadium in Beijing, China,  on February 4, 2022.   The two-week-long sporting e...

The James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) — the world's largest and most complex science telescope —  was successfully launched into space atop a European Ariane 5 rocket on Decembe...

Kamo'oalewa) (also known as 2016-H03), a small asteroid that orbits the Sun alongside Earth has been known to science since 2016.  However,  the rock's origins have always remai...

A fish with the body of a shark and the face of a pig may sound like something straight out of a science fiction movie. But that precisely describes the dead shark retrieved fro...