By refusing to look away, a space telescope discovered that planets are commonplace, not rare exceptions to the cosmic rule.
Maple syrup sugarhouses, shown as a thematic illustration of a hypothetical retirement example. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Imagine a Vermont sugarmaker retiring with roughly 800 gallons of ...
First-light collage for ESO’s MOONS spectrograph on the VLT: Unit Telescope 1 at Cerro Paranal with an inset of Baade’s Window showing fibre pointings. Credit: ESO/MOONS team/VVV survey/F. Char (ESO ...
An Artemis II astronaut photographed the cratered Moon and crescent Earth from Orion in April 2026. Credit: NASA. The image is illustrative and is not one of the microbial-survival maps from the study ...
The SETI@home Multi-Beam interface visualises frequency data processed by a volunteer computer. Credit: SETI@home/UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley project report. For 21 years, a global network of ordinary ...
Wade out from the north-western shore of Lake Issyk-Kul, keep walking until the water reaches your chest, and there is a fair chance you are standing on a mosque. In the autumn of 2025, an ...
A living root bridge starts out looking like something somebody forgot to pull up. A single pale root, no thicker than a shoelace, gets threaded by hand through a hollowed-out betel nut trunk laid ...
Turn up to a Madrid restaurant at seven in the evening and the chairs will still be stacked on the tables. Come back at half past ten and the room is packed, kids under the tables, grandparents ...
A big cat living inside one of the world’s densest cities sounds like a story about a mauling. That is how leopards near Mumbai usually get written up, and the fear has a real basis. But a group of ...
In 2009 a drill crew in northeast Iceland went looking for very hot water and hit something that was still moving. They were working at Krafla, a volcanic caldera about ten kilometres wide in one of ...
A single sheep can remember about 50 other sheep faces, and hold on to them for more than two years. That is the finding at the heart of a short 2001 paper in Nature, and it still lands hard against ...
A road junction in Sendai, Japan, in the early 1990s. The light turns red, a line of cars stops, and a crow drops onto the road just ahead of a front tire. It sets down a walnut, then flies back to ...
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