Category: 9. Sci-Tech

A fossil discovery in Northumberland, UK, has stunned the scientific community, revealing a millipede species that once grew to the size of a car. The find, made along the northeastern coast, showcases a creature that lived 326 million years…

Desiccation, or the loss of all moisture, means death for most organisms on…

When a magnitude 8.8 earthquake ripped through the Kuril-Kamchatka subduction zone on July 29, 2025, it launched a Pacific-wide tsunami – and a rare natural experiment.

NASA and the French space agency’s SWOT satellite happened to pass…

Voyager 1’s photographs included Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Venus. According to NASA’s website, ‘Mars was obscured by scattered sunlight bouncing around in the camera, Mercury was too close to the Sun, and dwarf planet Pluto was too…

About 150 million years ago, a long-necked dinosaur walked across a sandy flat that now sits high above Ouray, Colorado.

Its feet sank into wet sediment, and those steps hardened into a looping line of fossil footprints that scientists are now…

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue…

Scientists may have “heard” the first tantalizing hints of long-theorized primordial black holes born during the Big Bang. The potential detection of these tiny black holes that could be the size of a coin or even as small as a fraction of the…

We learn more and more about our universe all the time, but there’s recently been a huge spike in stunning cosmic observations. An increase in funding, dramatic advancements in telescopes, AI, image-processing algorithms, and data analysis has…