Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, an underwater volcano in the Tongan archipelago, erupted violently on January 15, 2022. According to a new study though, two faraway monitoring stations recorded a seismic wave some 15 minutes earlier.
New findings using data from NASA's IXPE mission offer unprecedented insight into the shape and nature of a structure important to black holes called a corona.
Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes that humans may have unintentionally killed life on Mars in the 1970s.
Encoding information in DNA has long seemed like a promising way to secure data for the long term, but so far it has required an expert touch.
Life on Earth may have developed the ability to form embryos even before it grew the very first animals.
The world's largest known prime number has been discovered, but we can't show it because it's so large it would take up 21 standard-sized novels to turn into text.
An international team has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, including an ultra-short period planet with one of the highest densities ever measured.
New research by Loughborough University warns that global renewable electricity supply will be unable to meet the surging demand from digital data by 2025.
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as our own Milky Way Galaxy - already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang.
The chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe - and in any hypothetical ones beyond it - can be estimated by a new theoretical model which has echoes of the famous Drake Equation.
In March 2021, astronomers observed a high-energy burst of light from a distant galaxy. Assigned the name AT 2021hdr, it was thought to be a supernova.
A compound found in a parasitic fungus that commonly paralyzes and kills caterpillars has been shown to block pathways critical for the growth of some cancers.
In a remarkable medical breakthrough, doctors have successfully used stem cells to treat a debilitating eye condition that can lead to vision loss.
Officials in New Delhi, the world's most polluted capital, banned non-essential construction and urged residents to avoid burning coal in an effort to combat worsening air quality.
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is warning that over 44% of reef-building coral species globally are at risk of extinction.
