1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (290+ words) More than 6,000 exoplanets have been confirmed in the Milky Way, including terrestrial worlds that may be composed mainly of rock and metal. The NASA Exoplanet Archive listed 6,366 confirmed planets as of September 11, 2026, along with thousands of additional candidates awaiting verification....

2+ day, 26+ min ago   (344+ words) When the fossil was first spotted on Seymour Island in 2011, no one knew what it was. The structure was flattened and paper-thin, unlike the rigid shells typically preserved in the fossil record. For years, it resisted classification. Nearly a decade…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (613+ words) Geoscience PhD student Kohei Tanaka and his supervisor Darla Zelenitsky have been working on a dinosaur eggshell fossil discovery in Japan.Riley Brandt/Supplied If you were present during the late Cretaceous, about 70 million years ago, it would be hard…...

6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1529+ words) The village of Kenesaw can be seen to the south on Sunday morning from this vantage point on top of the K-Dike structure along Smith Way north of town. The dike, which protects Kenesaw from flooding from the north, is…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago   (262+ words) Some Earth microbes could survive on the Moon, particularly in the deep, permanently shadowed regions near its south pole, a NASA and University of Maryland study has found. The finding raises concerns about human missions inadvertently carrying microorganisms to the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (863+ words) UNSW researchers have found their previous discovery of bacteria living on air in Antarctica is likely a process that occurs globally, further supporting the potential existence of microbial life on alien planets. In their first follow-up to a high-profile 2017 study…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (475+ words) A slow but powerful natural climate process may be getting a high-tech boost as researchers explore whether engineered bacteria can accelerate the breakdown of rocks, potentially speeding a natural pathway that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. On Aug. 28, 2026, Phys....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (193+ words) The tiny helpers of marine sponges also use organic amino acids image: Figure 1: The bright yellow elephant ear sponge, called Ianthella basta, can be found across coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific Ocean including the Great Barrier Reef off the coast…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (780+ words) Cape Shirreff is dark rock, gray sand and a wind that does not stop. The beach runs about sixteen hundred feet, and the surf works over whatever the water leaves on it. On a January afternoon a man walking that…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (551+ words) That hands-on upbringing, which taught Coon to appreciate the natural world and the processes that sustain it, continues to influence how he approaches science today. "I think I enjoy that physicality of seeing what I'm working with, seeing its change,…...