An Ancient Human Species Lived in This Island Cave by ...
Archaeologists in the Philippines have turned up the bones of a previously unknown species, Homo luzonensis, further expanding […]
Science
What Is a Black Hole? Here’s Our Guide for Earthlings ...
Welcome to the place of no return — a region in space where the gravitational pull is so […]
Earth’s First Glimpse of a Black Hole by JONATHAN CORUM
A planet-sized network of radio telescopes has assembled the first image of a supermassive black hole. Published: April […]
First Photo of a Black Hole May Be Revealed. Here’s ...
Astronomers at last may have captured images of the darkest entities in the cosmos. Published: April 10, 2019 […]
Martian Moon Phobos Crosses the Sun
What’s that passing in front of the Sun? It looks like a moon, but it can’t be Earth’s […]
How Dangerous Is It to Be a Bird in Your ...
A new study shows how efforts to prevent migrating birds from flying into skyscrapers and other brightly lit […]
How Beetles That Live Underwater Breathe Without a Scuba Tank ...
When an insect is this small, it seems to be able to get away with an unusual technique […]
The Comeback of Trumpeter Swans by KAREN WEINTRAUB
Restoration efforts in Ontario, Canada, have helped a once-vanquished population to flourish. And they have been sighted in […]
Moon Occults Saturn
Sometimes Saturn disappears. It doesn’t really go away, though, it just disappears from view when our Moon moves […]
Orchids Bloom in Thousands of Forms. But Why? by C. ...
Each species of orchid is designed to attract a specific pollinator. The genes that make that possible are […]