The story of life is one of small changes and major shifts. The growth from a single-celled organism to a multicellular one ...

This hasn't always been the case. If we take the current rate of recession and project it backwards, the Moon collides with ...

2025 is set to be an especially busy spider season for some parts of the world, according to some experts. In the UK, this ...

The smell has been described as a mix of rotten eggs, pungent cheese, ammonia, week-old armpit, and putrid fish.

Necklaces dating back to the Upper Palaeolithic have been recreated from caves in southern Spain, with some of the beads made ...

Similarly, cats hiss by pushing air out of a restricted airway (much the same way humans do when mimicking a hiss), and geese ...

In the waters off Washington State, a mother orca has been seen pushing her dead newborn calf, seemingly in mourning. It isn’t the first time this grieving behavior has been documented in this killer ...

The first image of a black hole was of M87*, the supermassive monster at the center of the enormous elliptical galaxy M87. The image was only possible thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope, and follow ...

On Earth, it took over 3 billion years for intelligent life to evolve. The planet went from having at least 6 percent carbon ...

In March 1968, the Soviet Union had a partial success with Zond 4. With this launch, they were able to take the spacecraft out to lunar distances (though not around the Moon) even if navigation system ...

B ack in 2019, researchers observed a collision between two black holes of wildly different masses. New analysis has revealed that the collision produced a massive recoil, sending the newly formed ...

The reason it could be heard by teams on multiple telescopes and in all different directions was because that irritating noise was in fact the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the leftover ...