Science

Space

NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Stumbled On A Glistening Lava Lake On Jupiter’s Moon Io

ByKiona Smith

Loki Patera is like no place on Earth.

Space

A Dead Star in a Nearby Galaxy Just Did Something Wild

ByKiona Smith

A massive star in M82 lived fast, died young, and left an extremely magnetic corpse.

Science

Look! 3.7 Billion-Year-Old Rocks Reveal The Oldest Evidence of Earth’s Magnetic Field

ByDoris Elín Urrutia

Our planet was a different place when these rocks formed.

Space

Voyager 1 Just Sent Its First Coherent Message Back to NASA In Months

ByKiona Smith

A clever programming fix has cured the spacecraft's electronic aphasia.

Space

Look Up! April’s Full Pink Moon Is Finally Here

ByKiona Smith

Blue Moons aren't really blue, and the Pink Moon isn't really pink, but at least the full Moon is really full.

Space

Physicists Just Mapped A Stellar, Galactic Burp of Astronomical Proportions

ByDoris Elín Urrutia

“That’s a lot of gas!”

Science

Rogue Waves: New Tech Captured This Elusive, Freakish Phenomenon In Ocean Waves

ByAlessandro Toffoli and The Conversation

Stories of unimaginable mountains of water as tall as ten-storey buildings have populated maritime folklore and literature for centuries.

Reel Science

David Cronenberg’s Freakiest Sci-Fi Movie Is Hiding Some Bizarre, Real Science

ByJohn Wenz

Overshadowed at the time by The Matrix, eXistenZ floundered at the box office but went on to become a cult classic.

Pet Science

Can Dogs Benefit from Psychedelics? Here’s What the Latest Science Says

ByElana Spivack

There might be a catnip for dogs after all.

Science

7,000 Years Ago, Ancient Humans May Have Lived in This Giant Arabian Lava Tube

ByThe Conversation, Huw Groucutt, Michael Petraglia and Mathew Stewart

Until recently, no archaeologists had surveyed any of the hundreds of caves and lava tubes recorded across northern Arabia.