The Ordos Basin holds an estimated 30 million tons of uranium, announced in January 2025 by the China Geological Survey. A second major deposit was discovered in July 2025 in the Tarim Basin at 1,820 ...

Scientists mapping how seismic energy travels through Earth's mantle discovered two structures beneath Africa and the Pacific that rise up to 1,000 kilometers from the core-mantle boundary, roughly ...

The natural world has always fueled the myths and stories of Indigenous cultures. But what if some of those myths were inspired by animals that disappeared hundreds of millions of years before humans ...

On January 30, a rare event unfolded far above Earth. Swiss space surveillance company S2A Systems captured the moment a Russian satellite disintegrated, leaving multiple fragments along its orbital ...

A recent study reveals that certain prehistoric structures were repurposed long after their original use. The discovery was made near the village of Reinstedt in central Germany. Plans to develop a ...

To reach this unexpected conclusion, researchers from the Department of Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health analyzed data from 487,194 participants with an average age of ...

The Cambrian explosion, beginning roughly 540 million years ago, is famous for the sudden appearance of major animal groups. Fossil sites such as Canada’s Burgess Shale capture that dramatic surge.

At a depth of 10,000 meters—where light never reaches and pressure could crush a submarine—a Chinese team has made an astonishing discovery: entire colonies of life thriving in conditions once thought ...

A stone wall deep inside a Greek cave stands as the oldest known human made structure. Dated to 23,000 years ago, it predates Egypt's Great Pyramid by over 18,000 years. In 2025, after nearly a decade ...

In March 2024, researchers at India's Nandhaur Wildlife Sanctuary spotted an otter on tiger camera traps. Unsure of the species, they returned in May with more cameras. Ten days later, the images ...

The Amazon Leo satellite constellation poses a growing threat to astronomical observations. According to researchers, these spacecraft are far too bright and could interfere with ground based ...

Just a few miles can make a dramatic difference. Two neighboring cities may experience completely different levels of heat stress, simply because of their location, vegetation cover, or the extent of ...