By Hannah Osborne Scientists are installing multiple temporary seismic monitoring stations to get a better understanding of the sharp increase in earthquakes recorded at Mount…
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By Carissa Wong Catching COVID-19 may raise the risk of developing autoimmune disease by 43% in the months following the infection, according to the largest study of…
By Harry Baker A new study confirms that Earth’s inner core has been rotating more slowly than usual since 2010. This mysterious “backtracking” could also end…
By Ben Turner The Euclid space telescope has released five mesmerizing new photos of our universe, kicking off a six-year campaign to unveil the secrets of…
By Joe Phelan Yellowstone’s supervolcano last erupted 70,000 years ago. Will it erupt again anytime soon? Beneath Yellowstone National Park, a vast region of spectacular wilderness visited…
By Ben Turner The Doomsday Clock, created 76 years ago by atomic scientists to warn against a human-made apocalypse, has moved to 90 seconds to midnight.…
By Ben Turner A “potentially hazardous” asteroid the size of a blue whale is set to zip past Earth on Friday (Aug. 12), according to NASA(opens in…
By Brandon Specktor In the dark of Sunday night and Monday morning (Aug. 7 and 8), a surprise solar storm slammed into Earth, showering our planet in a…
by Brandon Specktor In October 2020, astronomers detected an enormous, ancient explosion tearing through a galaxy several billion light-years from Earth. The blast appeared out of…
by Brandon Specktor The sun belched up a large flare of charged particles on Oct. 28, and now that electric wind is barreling toward Earth as a…
by Tom Metcalfe The mysterious Tarim mummies of China’s western Xinjiang region are relics of a unique Bronze Age culture descended from Indigenous people, and…
by Ben Turner A 3.3 foot-long (1 meter) sea scorpion prowled the seas of what is now China some 435 million years ago, using its…
by Laura Geggel In 2018, the largest active underwater eruption ever recorded birthed a giant “baby”: a skyscraper-size underwater volcano, a new study finds. Scientists…
By Laura Geggel Following a torrential summer downpour in northern Arizona, hundreds of bizarre, prehistoric-looking critters emerged from tiny eggs and began swimming around a temporary…
By Brandon Specktor The gargantuan Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet will strafe Saturn’s orbit in 2031. Scientists are stoked. An enormous comet — possibly the largest one ever detected…
by Mara Johnson-Groh – Live Science Contributor A giant asteroid collided with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula some 66 million years ago, as shown in…
By Mindy Weisberger An already-active hurricane season shows “no sign of slowing.” It’s been just over two months since the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season kicked off on…
By Rafi Letzter – Staff Writer Avi Loeb would like his views on alien technology taken seriously. Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb says he has found good evidence for…