Winter storms brought unusual snowfall to Chile’s Atacama Desert in August 2026, with one storm reaching from the Andes toward the Pacific coast, an exceptionally rare occurrence.

Scientists from the University of Bristol may have detected dark matter for the first time using an underground detector in the US, though the findings await independent verification.

A new study finds that star formation has plummeted over the past 4.5 billion years, yet hydrogen supplies have remained relatively stable, suggesting gas conversion rather than depletion drives the decline.

Indonesia’s peatland fires are burning underground, producing three times more pollution than typical forest fires and becoming increasingly difficult to extinguish as El Niño intensifies drought conditions.

A massive mantle plume beneath Africa explains unusual deformation patterns in the East African Rift System, according to new computer modeling by geophysicists at Virginia Tech.

Canadian researchers discovered that snake embryos coil into spirals because their rapidly lengthening bodies are mechanically constrained by a slowly-growing gut structure acting as a tether.

Researchers have identified a one-meter-long scorpion from 415 million years ago as the largest known to science, challenging understanding of when giant arthropods first appeared on Earth.

Researchers found that solar sails experience unexpected drag once traveling at 75% light speed due to relativistic effects that redirect scattered photons, potentially limiting interstellar propulsion efficiency.

Scientists formally described a common frog species that had been misidentified for over a century, highlighting the importance of historical museum specimens in modern taxonomy.

Researchers identified 80,000-year-old triangular projectile points at an Uzbekistan site, suggesting early Homo sapiens may have originated in Central Asia rather than Europe, potentially rewriting human migration history.

Researchers used Earth’s magnetic field as a giant detector to search for ultralight dark matter particles, identifying mysterious signal candidates that warrant further investigation.

NASA’s $4.3 billion Nancy Grace Roman space telescope launched Sunday after surviving White House budget cut attempts, beginning its million-mile journey to study exoplanets and the universe’s fundamental mysteries.