Popular culture has taught us that this chemical compound is seriously toxic and should be used only if you’re a spy whose cover is exposed or...
When stars run out of their fuel and die, they often burn out and turn into white dwarfs – the remains of the stellar core, that...
The so-called ‘Terracotta Warriors’ are life-size figures that are believed to have been built to protect the first Chinese emperor in the afterlife. More than 20...
A diver stumbled upon round columns while diving off the coast of the town of Dikili in western Turkey in 2021. It took archaeologists more than...
An expert in software tracking objects in space says that a SpaceX rocket booster is “certain” to impact the moon in a few weeks, marking what...
SpaceX’s unmanned Dragon cargo ship successfully undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) Sunday morning and is making its return to Earth. The CRS-24 cargo ship...
The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), commissioned in 2018, is a wide-field sky astronomical survey designed to detect neutron star collisions and transient objects that rapidly change...
A new study tracked the spread of a contagious blood cancer that raged through various species of clams across the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea....
Archeologists re-examining a trove of objects from a Bronze Age burial mound in the Caucasus first excavated in the 19th century believe that decorated gold and...
A UC Riverside astronomer and a group of eagle-eyed citizen scientists have discovered a giant gas planet hidden from view by typical stargazing tools. The planet,...
According to the space agency, the exoplanet called TOI-2180 b is about 379 light-years away from Earth and has an average temperature of about 170 degrees...