On December 25, 2021, the largest and most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was launched into space ...

The oldest map in Europe, a "lost golden city" in Egypt and a massive geoglyph in India that may be the world's largest are just some of the archaeological discoveries that were reported in 2021.

Some sea slugs dump their bodies and crawl around, head only, until they generate new, parasite-free bodies. That was just one wild discovery in the animal kingdom reported in 2021 → Giant tortoises ...

The year’s most exciting discoveries include a Viking “piggy bank,” a lost Native American settlement and a secret passageway hidden behind a bookshelf Cool Finds Meilan Solly - Senior Associate ...

This year, we got to know our universe a little bit better. Discoveries in our solar system helped us become better acquainted with planets like Mars and Venus. Waves of light reached us from across ...

Human Evolution 'It makes no sense to say there was only one origin of Homo sapiens': How the evolutionary record of Asia is complicating what we know about our species Human Evolution Who were the ...

This year, scientists learned more about COVID-19 as the virus continued to circulate and mutate. There were medical breakthroughs in treating other conditions and diseases. The cicadas emerged from ...