The termites who built the mounds, in successive generations over several thousands of years, shifted a staggering 10 km 3 of ...

A 2025 satellite image shows a series of ghostly ice swirls sculpted on the surface of Lake Michigan by strong winds during an extreme cold snap that covered Chicago in a blanket of snow.

Wood Buffalo National Park, in Canada, which spans northern Alberta and parts of the Northwest Territories, contains the largest beaver dam ever recorded. The structure lies deep within the park, far ...

From orbit, Earth looks less like a postcard and more like a living system of light, color and motion, where human fingerprints are subtle rather than screamingly obvious. The popular claim that the ...

JWST has created a map of dark matter that is twice as good as anything we have had before, and it may help unravel some of the deepest mysteries of the universe ...

Think you know your Dyson spheres from your dark blobs? This cosmic crossword dives into the strangest, most mind-bending structures ever spotted — or imagined — in the universe. When you purchase ...