Vega, the fifth-brightest star in the night sky, serves as a guide to locating Lyra, one of the smallest constellations visible high overhead from the UK after dark.

University of Florida students uncovered a 400-year-old intact clay pot from an Indigenous Potano-Timucua settlement at Mission San Francisco de Potano in Gainesville, a rare find that archaeologists are still studying.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered that early massive galaxies contained far more small stars than previously thought, making them up to four times more massive than earlier estimates.

Researchers froze the liquid core of optical fibers using extreme cold, enabling light and sound to interact 1,000 times more strongly than in conventional fibers, potentially advancing photonic computing technology.

Scientists discovered that deep Earth forces gradually raised East Antarctica’s terrain millions of years ago, creating elevations cold enough for ice to accumulate and form the massive ice sheet that exists today.

A new study identifies three previously unknown Assyrian rulers not listed in the traditional Assyrian King List, suggesting the official record may have omitted rulers for political reasons.

Global sand and gravel extraction from riverbeds has more than doubled since 2000, outpacing natural replenishment and damaging riverbanks, groundwater levels, and water quality, according to a new study.

Chough populations in Cornwall have reached record numbers this summer, with 161 birds counted across the region, representing a significant recovery for the species that vanished from the area in the 1970s.

County Fermanagh recorded 10 barn owl chicks across two sites this summer, marking the first successful breeding in the county in approximately 50 years and raising hopes for the species’ recovery.

Astronomers report discovering a solar-system-sized object combining black hole and star characteristics, identified as a red-glowing anomaly in early universe images from the James Webb Space Telescope.

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory resolved a decades-long mystery about how diamond behaves under extreme pressure, potentially advancing inertial confinement fusion research and planetary science models.

Groundwater reserves beneath High Mountain Asia are declining by approximately 24.2 billion tonnes annually, according to a new satellite-based study using artificial intelligence to track changes over two decades.