This Beauty Is the Biggest Ancient Flower Ever Found Preserved in Amber
This bloom preserved in amber more than 33 million years old is a giant among flowers trapped in amber. Carola Radke, MfN (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin) Amber — sticky tree…
Researchers May Have Uncovered the Long Lost Ancient Temple of Poseidon
Excavation and study is still in the early phases for this shrine, which might have been a temple of Poseidon. Birgitta Eder/Athens Branch of the Austrian Archaeological Institute Paging Percy…
There’s a Silent but Massive Environmental Crisis We’re Finally Addressing
Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images This story is part of CNET Zero, a series that chronicles the impact of climate change and explores what’s being done about the problem. “Cancer…
Environmental Racism Explained and What the US Is Doing About It
Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images “Cancer Alley” is an 85-mile stretch of land in Louisiana containing 150 petrochemical facilities situated near mostly Black, low-income residents who suffer from abnormally high…
Life on the ‘Terminator’: What Survival on the Nearest Exoplanet Might Look Like
An artist’s impression of what the “terminator” zone may be like on Proxima b. ESO/M. Kornmesser What if night and day were places to visit rather than times to pass?…
NASA’s James Webb Telescope finds first exoplanet almost exactly the same size as Earth
NASA’s James Webb Telescope hit another milestone on Wednesday, identifying its first exoplanet 41 light-years away that is almost exactly the same size as Earth. Formally dubbed LHS 475 b,…
This Record-Breaking Star System’s Year Is Shorter Than One Earth Day
An illustration of an ultracool dwarf star (front, red) with a companion white dwarf (back, white with blue haze). Getty Images It’s always a rare delight when astronomers stumble upon…
NASA Planet Hunter Finds Intriguing World in Star’s Habitable Zone
Artist illustration of TOI 700 e orbiting in the habitable zone of its star. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Robert Hurt Well, hello there! Astronomers have discovered a previously undetected Earth-size planet hanging out in…
Major Milestone: NASA’s James Webb Telescope Finds Its First Exoplanet
An illustration of the exoplanet LHS 475 b. NASA, ESA, CSA, L. Hustak (STScI) NASA and the European Space Agency’s next-generation space observatory has been operating for less than a…
NASA’s Webb finds what may be the most chemically primitive galaxy identified
NASA said a new analysis of distant galaxies captured by the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed what may be the most chemically primitive galaxy identified thus far. The research…