The “giant” part of its name is pretty apt – adult giant garter snakes can reach a whopping 1.62 meters (5.3 feet). Sure, ...

The Canary Islands are an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, found off the northwestern coast of Africa. They were formed by ...

That one earthquake could trigger the other is perhaps not surprising. After all, the Cascadia subduction zone is huge – it ...

The team looked for an explanation as to why the myth involved a seventh bright star, visible to the naked eye. Running ...

The species is currently only known from the area where it was found, and it was discovered covered in mud, making it a ...

It’s “maybe the first direct evidence” of preserved materials from the so-called “proto-Earth”, said Nicole Nie, the Paul M.

Specifically, “lead bands” observed in tooth enamel suggest that the specimens all came into contact with the heavy metal ...

The object is known as 2025 SC79, and it is 700 meters (2,297 feet) across. It goes around the Sun every 128 days, and it even crosses the orbit of Mercury. First observed on September 27, this object ...

Just a few weeks ago, we crossed the significant milestone of 6,000 known exoplanets. The counter keeps getting higher, and there are 8,000 more candidates waiting for confirmation. In the decades ...

The first-ever detection of this rare form of water in a protoplanetary disk suggests that what we drink might have been ...

Given its scientific species name bella – Latin for beautiful – the "beautiful dwarfgoby" as it is commonly known is quite ...

Despite its astonishing success, JWST has a flaw that made its observations on some targets borderline unusable, but PhD ...