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

The first image of a black hole was of M87*, the supermassive monster at the center of the enormous elliptical galaxy M87.

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

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 ...

So why is it that such a large country has most of its population concentrated towards the south? Part of the answer is the "Canadian shield", a vast area of exposed Precambrian igneous and ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

“The primary reason European toilets have two buttons is to save water,” explains Chinese toilet manufacturer Danube Toilet. ...

"3I/ATLAS achieves perihelion on the opposite side of the Sun relative to Earth. This could be intentional to avoid detailed observations from Earth-based telescopes when the object is brightest or ...