Astronomers have detected erythrulose, a four-carbon sugar found in raspberries, kiwis and other red fruits, floating in a giant molecular cloud of gas and dust near the center of our galaxy, approximately 26,745 light-years from Earth.
Scientists have formally described a new species of colobus monkey from the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo, making it only the fifth new monkey species identified in Africa in the past 75 years.
It has been a summer of white shark encounters across the Atlantic and Pacific, and the footage and headlines keep coming. Here is the full picture of what is happening.
Researchers have declared a catastrophic mortality event for Pacific gray whales after 145 dead animals were found stranded on West Coast beaches so far this year, already well above the historical annual average of 43 strandings between 2006 and 2023, and on pace to rival or exceed 2025's record of
A new study published Thursday in the journal Science confirms something that sounds like it belongs in a disaster movie but happened in reality, and silently, which is somehow more unsettling. Japan's catastrophic 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake, the magnitude 9.0 event that killed more than 18,000 peop
The Strawberry Moon, June's full moon, reaches peak illumination on Monday June 29 at 7:57 PM Eastern Time. That is one week from today.
The Perseid meteor shower peaks the night of August 12 into the predawn hours of August 13, 2026, and this particular year's Perseids are shaping up to be among the best in recent memory.
A fisherman who disappeared from Pukapuka Island in the Cook Islands on June 11 was found alive on Friday by a Royal New Zealand Air Force surveillance aircraft after spending more than a week adrift alone in the South Pacific in a 4-metre aluminium skiff, a boat roughly the size of a large dining t
A 30-year-old man from Norfolk has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a three-year-old boy was seriously injured when he ended up inside the crocodile enclosure at Johnson's of Old Hurst, a family zoo near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, England, on Wednesday afternoon.
Scientists warn that Lake Mead and Lake Powell are heading toward a system crash by 2028 if the Colorado River Basin has another dry year. The reservoirs serve 40 million people across seven Western states.
The Blue Moon rising this weekend is the second full moon of May 2026, which is already enough to qualify it as rare under the modern definition of the term. But this particular Blue Moon is also a micromoon, meaning it arrives near apogee, the farthest point in the moon’s ellipt
Scientists have produced the first climatological map of the wave-affected marginal ice zone, the dynamic, turbulent boundary where the Southern Ocean’s swells reach the edge of Antarctic sea ice and shake it, using a decade of advanced satellite radar data collected between 2013
A powerful El Niño is developing in the Pacific Ocean, and the first major test of how severe its effects will be could arrive as soon as early June, when monsoon season begins across much of the tropical world. Scientists are warning that this year’s weather pattern has the pote
