1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (903+ words) New research suggests that giant sunspots may give the Sun the ability to produce rare and powerful superflares. New research suggests that the Sun may be capable of producing rare superflares, extreme eruptions that could release energy far beyond the…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (682+ words) Thousands of meters below the ocean surface, researchers recorded squid they rarely get to see. The unusual footage is revealing a mysterious side of deep-sea life that few have ever witnessed. A rare bigfin squid has been recorded nearly 3,300 meters…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (715+ words) Northern U.S. states could get a chance to see the Northern Lights as favorable aurora conditions bring attention to the night sky. The best prospects extend across some of the northernmost parts of the United States, bringing a phenomenon normally associated…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (657+ words) For more than 300 million years, a piece of Earth’s ancient history remained hidden beneath the surface. A new discovery inside a U.S. cave is now revealing the sharks that once lived in a vanished world. Deep beneath Kentucky, scientists have uncovered…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (636+ words) Scientists sent a robot into the freezing waters beneath a Greenland glacier to study a hidden environment few humans have ever seen. What the camera captured beneath the ice revealed a side of glaciers that remained largely unseen. A camera-equipped…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (658+ words) A team of scientists has made an astonishing discovery on an underwater volcano off the Pacific coast: it is still active, covered in giant eggs, and that’s not all. Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, scientists have uncovered an extraordinary hidden…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (578+ words) Scientists modeled nuclear winter and global collapse. Seven countries emerged with unusual survival advantages. Two peer-reviewed studies examining national resilience under severe global disruption point to an overlapping group of seven countries. The countries did not come out of a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (681+ words) For decades, scientists assumed the differences between Mars's north and south stopped at the surface. New data pulled from NASA spacecraft suggests something far stranger is happening hundreds of kilometers below. A recent study has found that there is an…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (469+ words) A geomagnetic storm may push the northern lights across parts of the United States from Alaska to Pennsylvania. NOAA forecasts indicate that a high-speed stream of solar wind, combined with effects from earlier CMEs, could disturb Earth’s magnetic environment enough…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (594+ words) These black spheres from nearly 4 miles beneath the Pacific conceal fragile creatures with biology scientists did not expect to find in the abyss. At nearly 4 miles below the Pacific, even basic facts about animal life are difficult to establish. The…...