The closest exoplanets to the Solar System are around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. This little star is orbiting two bigger Sun-like stars, which are known as Alpha Centauri A and B. For over a decade, people have proposed possible planets around either, with no confirmation. New observations now make a stronger case for a […]
Redditors Claim They Can Smell When Someone Is Pregnant. Is That Really A Thing?
Over on Reddit, people are discussing whether it is possible to “smell” that somebody else is pregnant, with several users claiming anecdotal evidence that you can smell when somebody has a fetus forming inside them. “This might sound really weird, but I’m being completely serious and would really like some insight… For some reason, I […]
New Monster Black Hole 36.3 Billion Times Our Sun May Be “Most Massive” Ever Found
If size doesn’t matter, then explain this: The Cosmic Horseshoe is a gravitationally lensed system with the foreground galaxy being one of the heaviest in the known universe, hundreds of times our own galaxy. It is so heavy that it warps space-time to such a degree that the light of a background galaxy is distorted […]
An Interstellar Mission To Visit A Black Hole Might Only Take 70 Years, Astrophysicist Says
Alas, we do not live in Star Trek; the speed of light, as far as we can tell, is an insurmountable limit. This means that even if we wanted to visit the closest star system, we would have to travel for several years. We currently have no spacecraft that can travel at the speed of […]
Four Super Rare Barbary Lion Cubs Born At Czech Zoo In Conservation Win
A Czech zoo has welcomed four Barbary lion cubs, the result of continued efforts to conserve this rare population of big cats after it was driven to extinction in the wild. The cubs were born at Dvůr Králové safari park to mom Khalila and dad Bart, who have previously parented equally adorable little lions back […]
NASA’s Perseverance Snaps One Of Sharpest 360° Panoramas On Mars Ever Taken
What a time to be alive, when you can pull a tiny computer from your pocket and gaze at a high-resolution panorama of Mars captured by a space-traveling robot. The image is a mosaic of 96 images taken by NASA’s Perseverance rover on May 26, 2025, that were carefully pieced together to create this 360° […]
UAP Researchers Search For “Transient Events” In Earth’s Shadow, Finding Unexplained Events
A newly published study by Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) researchers has looked at mysterious “transient events”. Since 2017, the Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO) project has attempted to look for stars and other sources of light that have appeared and disappeared from view or have dimmed unusually over the 20th […]
Neolithic Cannibals In Spain Ate Their Enemies As A Form Of “Ultimate Elimination”
The remains of what may be an entire family have been discovered in a Neolithic cave in northern Spain, with evidence suggesting that the group was eaten by cannibals. According to researchers, the barbaric act had nothing to do with either famine or religion, but was probably motivated by conflict and a desire to annihilate […]
RFK Jr Pulls Millions Of Dollars Of mRNA Vaccine Funding, Citing Misinformation – Here’s What To Know
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., just announced a “coordinated wind-down” of mRNA vaccine development. That includes the termination of 22 research contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and a moratorium on new agreements being initiated. In a statement, Kennedy claimed that the […]
Ride On Board A Red-Footed Booby As It Catches Flying Fish Above The Indian Ocean
Soaring over the Indian Ocean might sound idyllic, but when you’ve got to catch your supper it becomes a lot trickier. New bird-mounted cameras have offered researchers an insight into how red-footed boobies catch flying fish, and revealed that both birds and fish are on the wing. Red-footed boobies (Sula sula rubripes) in the Chagos […]
People Returned To Live In Post-Apocalyptic Pompeii – But Life Was Never The Same
Imagine returning to your home, the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, after it had been crushed and crozzled by a violent volcanic eruption. The streets are buried in ash, your house is flattened beneath a shower of boulders, and your favourite bakery is nowhere to be found. Remarkably, there’s now evidence that some people did […]
Keep An Eye Out For Aurorae This Week – This “Weak” Solar Flare Might Pack A Surprising Punch
The Sun is just past its peak of activity for this solar cycle, but that does not mean it is done with its fireworks. A relatively weak flare yesterday has caused a minor radio blackout, and it might lead to some aurorae on Friday as a large wave of plasma has left the Sun, speeding […]
Are You More Likely To Be Killed By An Elephant Or An Asteroid? Science Now Has The Answer
Humans are not the most rational beings when it comes to fear, especially about things that are interesting and dramatic in the media, but are rare occurrences in real life. If you are a millennial, you’ll know by now that quicksand, while dangerous, is not quite the threat we were promised as kids. Asteroids, however, […]
Five Times A Tumor Behaved Downright Weird
Tumors are abnormal masses of tissue that usually form when cells go rogue, be that due to uncontrollable cell growth or division, or refusing to die when they should. We have rounded up some of the most bizarre cases where tumors didn’t just misbehave… but went completely off-script. A patient’s tumor was accidentally transplanted […]
Apple Snails Can Regrow Their Eyes. Now, Scientists Are Asking: Could We?
Sometimes science stumbles across something amazing while researching another thing entirely. Most recently? That the humble apple snail (Pomacea canaliciulata) can regrow its eyes, regenerating them after injury or amputation. The discovery came about after Assistant Professor Dr Alice Accorsi began working on a solution for the invasive apple snails that are munching their way […]
Why On Earth Did Such Strange Animals Evolve On Madagascar?
When it comes to bizarre wildlife and freaky fauna, Australia and the Galápagos often steal the limelight, but Madagascar is an even stranger world unto itself. Located off the east coast of Africa, it is home to 1,314 species of native land and freshwater vertebrates, up to 90 percent of which are found nowhere else […]
Nine Years Ago A Huge Opening Appeared In Antarctic Sea Ice – Now We Know Why
In 2016, the sea ice in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea developed an enormous hole twice the size of Wales – the country, not a pod of giant mammals. The following year it returned, but the reasons remained unknown. Now they have been explained as a result of previously understood factors and a rare form of salt […]
Could Antarctica’s Dormant Volcanoes “Reawaken” In The Future?
Amid its towering ice sheets, Antarctica conceals a fiery secret, a landscape dotted with volcanoes. Most remain dormant, inactive, or buried beneath the ice, but some speculate that as the surrounding ice melts, these sleeping giants could stir back to life. The last major melting event on Earth occurred between 12,000 and 7,000 years ago […]
An “Encounter” With Something From Outside Our Solar System May Have Cooled Earth In A Big Way
As the Moon orbits the Earth, and the Earth circles the Sun, the Sun itself travels around the center of the Milky Way—rising and falling above and below the galaxy’s plane along the way. A study has suggested that this motion of our star through the galaxy potentially takes us through regions of space that […]
Curiosity Spots “Coral Reef” Rock On Mars. It’s A Sign Of Ancient Water
Every now and then, one of the robots on Mars sends back a picture of an unusual rock it has found on its journeys. After all, that’s one of the reasons we sent them there. These can range from the interesting (such as the donut-shaped rock which may not be from the planet) to the […]
