It all boils down to the apparent brightness of an object, or in astronomical parlance, its apparent magnitude. There are ...

"This raises a disturbing prospect—a Kardashev Type III metasociety may annihilate planetary systems as it expands to ...

For any Gen Zers in the audience, a filing cabinet is an archaic piece of office furniture that was used by your ancestors in ...

A lligators aren’t picky eaters. Given half a chance, they will consume all kinds of fish, birds, turtles, small mammals, and ...

In August 1993, seven hikers climbed the popular tourist destination, Khamar-Daban mountain. Only one witness would survive.

The research, supported by the Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, shows that even an experiment with a clear mission in particle physics can often find something unplanned. This was also ...

The rare finding was made by a team at Cambridge University’s Fitzwilliam Museum, in the UK, who uncovered the surprisingly complete handprint on the bottom of a clay model sculpted into the shape of ...

G obi bears are the most endangered of Earth’s eight bear species. Just 40 individuals are thought to be left surviving in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, a place of extreme temperatures and little water ...

James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, ...

Supermassive black holes, sitting at the core of galaxies, are known to be active and emit a lot of X-rays. Finding one way ...

According to the team, led by scientists at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy, that equates to 14.8 ...

The researchers outline four new types of “seasons” that they believe have recently grown in prominence: Emergent seasons – ...