Saturn’s tiny, frozen moon Enceladus is a strange place. Just 300 miles across, the moon is thought to have an outer shell of ice covering a global ocean 20 miles deep, encasing a rocky core. Slashed across Enceladus’ south pole are four straight, parallel fissures or “tiger stripes” from which water erupts. These fissures aren’t quite like anything else in the Solar System.
Ancient pieces of amber found to contain dinosaur feathers riddled with louse-like insects
A new study examines how early animals endured the worst ice age in Earth’s history, and why it might have set the stage for our existence.
Shortly after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, an unexpected discovery by the mission’s science team revealed that the asteroid could be active, or consistently discharging particles into space. The ongoing examination of Bennu — and its sample that will eventually be returned to Earth — could potentially shed light on why this intriguing phenomenon is occurring.
Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities announced on Friday that it has discovered a number of huge archaeological stone blocks near Giza pyramids west of the capital Cairo.
Of all the galaxies observed by astronomers, barely any are as strange or geometrically unique as Hoag’s Object.
The Japanese mission Hayabusa2 just bid farewell to the asteroid the probe spent a year and a half studying, and scientists have now announced some intriguing trends they noticed in the spacecraft’s photos.
Will we one day combine tardigrade DNA with our cells to go to Mars?
The eruptions may hurl meteors toward Earth.
Billy Meier is a Swiss national who in the 1970s claimed he had been in contact with aliens from the Pleiades star cluster – and had photographs to prove it.
