When snow falls on the interior of Antarctica, it does not melt. It piles up, year on year, and the weight of each new layer presses the layers below into ice.
On the evening of 21 August 1986, in a remote part of northwestern Cameroon, the surface of a small crater lake known as Lake Nyos exhibited a brief disturbance.
Astronauts who spend months on the International Space Station come back to Earth slightly taller than when they left.
On 7 December 1995, a small probe released by NASA's Galileo spacecraft entered the atmosphere of Jupiter and transmitted data as it fell.
On 17 November 1970, a Soviet unmanned mission called Luna 17 touched down on the Sea of Rains, a wide basalt plain on the near side of the Moon.
The standard cultural framing of how aggression operates has, for most of the contemporary period, been calibrated to a particular set of explanatory variables.
Imagine standing under a tent on a karst hillside in Puerto Rico, on an afternoon in November 1974, watching the dedication of a remodeled radio telescope.For just under three minutes it warbles at the sky.
On 26 September 1991, eight people were sealed inside Biosphere 2, a three-acre enclosure of glass and steel near Oracle, Arizona.
Hyperion, the world's tallest living tree at roughly 380 feet, grows in a hidden grove of Redwood National Park whose coordinates the Park Service refuses to disclose. The reason is what happened to the redwoods that came before it.
SPHEREx has opened a much wider window onto one of the dustiest phases of black hole growth.
NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy announced, on January 13, 2026, that they had signed a memorandum of understanding committing the two agencies to the…
The Milky Way, by the standards of how large galaxies actually develop, is a particular kind of cosmic predator.
On a July day in 1518, in the city of Strasbourg, a woman known to history as Frau Troffea walked out of her home and into the narrow cobbled street, and began to dance.
A few hours after the lunar module Eagle touched down on the Sea of Tranquility on July 20, 1969, before Neil Armstrong opened the hatch and climbed down the…
On the morning of June 30, 1908, the sky over a remote stretch of Siberian forest split open.
On 28 September 1969, a meteorite broke up in the sky over Murchison, a small town in Victoria, Australia.
