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South Dakota's Famous Mammoth Graveyard Is Way Older Than Scientists Thought

The famous Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, South Dakota is far older than previously thought, according to new research. Scientists used luminescence dat…

By Morgan Ellis · Sep 15, 2026

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A High School Teacher's Knee Surgery Walk Led to History's First T. Rex Trackway

Archaeologists in the United States have discovered what are believed to be the first known footprints of a running Tyrannosaurus rex, a find describe…

By Riley Carter · Sep 15, 2026

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Scientists Used Earth's Own Magnetic Field to Hunt Dark Matter and Found Dozens of Strange Signals

Physicists used the entire Earth as a massive dark matter detector in a groundbreaking global search for the mysterious substance that makes up most o…

By Avery Bennett · Sep 14, 2026

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Australia's Iron-Rich Outback May Be Sitting on a Clean Energy Jackpot

Scientists have discovered a significant natural hydrogen deposit beneath the Australian outback, raising hopes for a cleaner energy future. Natural o…

By Quinn Foster · Sep 14, 2026

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Lab-Made Planetary Ice Reveals Secrets Hidden Inside Uranus and Neptune

Scientists have discovered a new form of ice that may exist deep inside planets like Neptune and Uranus. Since retrieving samples from these distant p…

By Jamie Sullivan · Sep 13, 2026

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Rocket Lab Challenges NASA's $700 Million Mars Orbiter Award to Blue Origin

Rocket Lab is challenging NASA's decision to award Blue Origin a $700 million contract to build a Mars orbiter, arguing the selection process violated…

By Rowan Fletcher · Sep 13, 2026

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A High School Teacher Found the First Adult T. Rex Footprints Ever Recorded

Paleontologists have made a groundbreaking discovery in the badlands of western North Dakota, uncovering the first known set of tracks left by a fully…

By Taylor Reed · Sep 12, 2026

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Teen's Origami Experiments Could Transform How We Build Disaster Shelters

A 14-year-old from New York won the top middle-school science prize after systematically testing 54 origami fold variations to find the strongest desi…

By Drew Mitchell · Sep 12, 2026

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Ancient Hidden Landmass Confirms Gondwana Was a True Supercontinent That Sparked Life

New research confirms that Gondwana was indeed a true supercontinent, settling a long-standing scientific debate. Researchers made the determination a…

By Jordan Hayes · Sep 11, 2026

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New MRI Agent Spots Lung Cancer Tumors as Small as One Millimeter

Researchers at Georgia State University have developed a new protein-based MRI contrast agent that can detect lung cancer and hidden metastases earlie…

By Emerson Gray · Sep 11, 2026

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Webb Telescope Unveils Stunning New Detail Inside the Lion Nebula

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning and highly detailed image of the Lion Nebula, offering a closer look at the dying star withi…

By Cameron Brooks · Sep 10, 2026

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Giant Dinosaur Eggs Found at the Bottom of the World Rewrite Nesting History

Scientists have discovered a collection of fossilized eggs belonging to the largest dinosaurs ever known, found in a location far outside what researc…

By Casey Morgan · Sep 10, 2026

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Ancient Cave Markings in Ireland Could Rewrite the Island's Entire Human History

Cave art discovered across eight caves in Ireland suggests humans may have inhabited the region thousands of years earlier than previously believed. T…

By Rowan Fletcher · Sep 9, 2026

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Washing-Machine-Sized Asteroid Burns Up Over Australia in a Historic Planetary Defense First

A small asteroid struck Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean near Australia on Sunday, September 6, 2026. Remarkably, experts detected the object …

By Quinn Foster · Sep 9, 2026

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How a Warm Tropical Ocean Secretly Buried Antarctica in Record Snowfall

East Antarctica added a record 695 billion tons of ice between 2021 and 2023, temporarily slowing the continent's long-term ice loss. Scientists disco…

By Quinn Foster · Sep 8, 2026

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Utah's Rocky Slopes Are Hiding Nearly a Billion Tons of Frozen Water

Scientists have discovered that Utah's seemingly dry, rocky mountain slopes are hiding nearly 1 billion tons of water locked within so-called rock gla…

By Jordan Hayes · Sep 8, 2026

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US Army Stormed a Fake Desert City With Drones and Robots to Prepare for Future War

US Army soldiers conducted a major training exercise in the Mojave Desert, testing new technologies in simulated urban combat against mock enemy force…

By Devin Marsh · Sep 7, 2026

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The Leap Second's Days Are Numbered as Global Timekeepers Weigh a Century-Scale Fix

International timekeeping officials are set to vote in October on a proposal that would replace the familiar leap second with a much larger leap hour.…

By Reese Coleman · Sep 7, 2026

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A Warm Tropical Ocean Triggered Antarctica's Record Ice Surge — Here's the Catch

East Antarctica experienced a record-breaking ice gain of 695 billion tons over just two years, driven largely by unusually heavy snowfall triggered b…

By Riley Carter · Sep 6, 2026

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New Research Pinpoints Which American Regions Would Lose Power in a Catastrophic Solar Storm

New research has mapped out which parts of the United States are most vulnerable to power outages caused by a severe solar storm. Scientists have iden…

By Drew Mitchell · Sep 6, 2026

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Your DNA May Help Explain Why You Are the Way You Are

Researchers have identified genetic markers connected to the Big Five personality traits, which include openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agr…

By Rowan Fletcher · Sep 5, 2026

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After 8 Years and 6 Billion Miles, Two Spacecraft Are Finally at Mercury

After eight years of travel through space, the BepiColombo mission is closing in on Mercury and preparing to unlock some of the tiny planet's biggest …

By Jordan Hayes · Sep 5, 2026

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A Tiny Probe Launching in 2029 Will Spend 80,000 Years Reaching the Nearest Star

A new nonprofit called Fermi Explorer is planning to launch the first spacecraft intentionally aimed at another star system by 2029, with a budget und…

By Riley Carter · Sep 4, 2026

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How a Solar Superstorm Nearly Sent Self-Driving Cars Off Course Last November

A powerful solar superstorm recently disrupted GPS systems so severely that self-driving vehicles experienced dangerous navigation failures. The massi…

By Sydney Parker · Sep 4, 2026