Category: 7. Science

A mosquito larva entombed in amber for about 99 million years is now the oldest known of its kind, according to a new study.

The fossil comes from Kachin in northern Myanmar and likely formed when tree resin dripped into a tiny pool.

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Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon.

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Not all species that have been classified as “extinct” are actually extinct….

Welcome back to a special scary installment of the Abstract! Is Halloween over? Technically yes. But as lovers of spooky season will know, the fallout from Halloween—when dawn reveals the remains of the festivities—is an…

A dead star is tearing into the leftovers of its own planetary system. The feast shows up as 13 rock-forming elements in the star’s light, and the ruined body was at least 120 miles wide.

The star sits in a nearby patch of sky and was observed…

New Glenn is vertical on the pad and its engines are hot.

The second-ever liftoff of Blue Origin‘s powerful New Glenn rocket is approaching as the launch vehicle undergoes final checkouts at Launch Complex-36A (LC-36A), at Cape Canaveral Space…

This article was originally published at Eos. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

A sizable asteroid impact generally obliterates anything alive nearby. But the aftermath of such a cataclysm…

Scientists found a single antivenom effective against 17 venomous African snake species.

Until now, antivenoms have been far from perfect. Although they save lives, some do not neutralize every toxin in the venom they work against. Often, a…