Category: 7. Science

As a boy, holidaying with his family in the New South Wales coastal town of Gerringong, Robert Beattie found a shell in a rock. It turned out to be hundreds of millions of years old – a Permian fossil, common to the Sydney basin.

“I couldn’t…

A medieval Maya text for predicting solar eclipses has confused Western readers for centuries, but a pair of researchers may have finally cracked how it’s really meant to work.

Indigenous civilizations in Mexico and Guatemala kept calendars…

A medieval Maya text for predicting solar eclipses has confused Western readers for centuries, but a pair of researchers may have finally cracked how it’s really meant to work.

Indigenous civilizations in Mexico and Guatemala kept calendars for…

In the deep waters off central Japan, scientists have discovered a pale pink sea anemone, named Paracalliactis tsukisome, that builds its own shell-like home – then shares it with a hermit crab partner.

The newly described species forms an…

Every week, Space.com delivers the latest discoveries, launches, and cosmic curiosities from across the universe. From groundbreaking research aboard the International Space Station to dazzling new images from the James Webb Space Telescope, the…