China is sending a hopping robot into the Moon’s darkest craters, where a discovery could reshape the next era of lunar exploration. China is preparing to launch its most ambitious lunar mission yet.

New mathematical research suggests that cannibalism can offer short-term survival benefits under very limited conditions, yet it inevitably becomes unsustainable as infectious diseases spread through ...

A Roman marching camp uncovered during construction in Šurany, Slovakia, provides long-suspected evidence of Roman military activity north of the Danube. © Workers ...

The discovery was made by paleontologist Tim Churchill and colleagues at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), who described three extinct species and two new genera belonging to the newly named ...

The 1961 Idaho reactor explosion was over in milliseconds, but the disputed cause and troubling design flaws remain unsettled decades later. Investigators determined that the excessive control rod ...

Astronomers have identified a planetary-mass object orbiting a brown dwarf in the nearby star system CD-35 2722, creating a rare three-level orbital arrangement involving a star, a brown dwarf, and a ...

A 3,046-kilometer green belt around the Taklamakan is now pulling more CO2 from the air than the desert emits. A study published in January 2026 in PNAS now reports a measurable outcome that nobody ...

Colorado homes may be hiding an invisible killer linked to 21,000 deaths a year, and most families never see it coming. In Colorado alone, the CDPHE estimates radon contributes to around 500 lung ...

For decades, astronomers expected Omega Centauri to contain thousands of black holes but could not find them. By following the subtle motion of one star, Hubble and Webb have now uncovered the first ...

Moments before a person dies, some relatives and close companions report experiencing visions, sensations, or encounters that appear connected to the dying process. Unlike near-death experiences (NDEs ...

A 518-million-year-old marine fossil from southern China has provided the earliest known evidence of the anatomical structures that later evolved into the fangs and pincers of modern chelicerates.

A new scientific investigation of the Shroud of Turin is using genetic sequencing to study biological traces preserved in its linen fibers. The research does not determine the age or authenticity of ...