N obody does it better than supermassive black hole J2245+3743. It is a bright, active galactic nucleus (AGN), with a mass ...

A piece of a comet decided to take a fatal dive into the Earth’s atmosphere, causing a bright flash and explosion tens of ...

P ower lines are a great place to look if you are in need of birds or shoes. It's not unusual to see a group of small birds, ...

“After considering these other scenarios, we argue that mating is the most likely scenario to have caused the recurrent ...

Behind the Sun, the comet appears to show signs of acceleration beyond what is expected by gravity. And for reasons not yet ...

Gars are sort of like the poster child for “living fossils”. A living fossil is considered to be an animal alive today whose ...

According to calculations from IFLScience's resident astronomer, Dr Alfredo Carpineti, using data from NASA's Eyes on the Solar System, this will occur on November 13, 2026. After this date, the probe ...

New research has thrown a spanner in the works for giraffe conservation, after analyzing the genetics of giraffes kept in human care in North America, and finding that most of those studied are in ...

A fter 55 years missing from the Karakum Desert, it was suspected that the Turkestan long-eared bat ( Plecotus turkmenicus) had likely gone extinct or become very rare. Nobody had seen the species ...

The experiment at CERN produced pairs of electron and positron beams, propagating into an ambient plasma. The international ...

Two weeks ago, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was at conjunction, on the opposite side of the Sun with respect to Earth. Last ...

Even without the ISS, some humans will stay off planet for the foreseeable future. There is no plan to stop the continuous ...