These are known as mesophotic coral ecosystems, and one off the coast of Benin was thought to be long dead. Now, new surveys ...

Near-Earth object 1998 SH2 had to be reclassified as a dark comet and not an asteroid. It failed to show up in observations, ...

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Only an idiot would believe there was real gold in fool's gold, right? As is often the case, the normal rules don’t apply in ...

Congratulations, you’ve experienced iridescence – a dazzling optical phenomenon that can be seen in many kinds of wildlife.

We are still not sure what the correct expansion rate of the universe is; stellar astronomers have now put forward a ...

The helium detection in 2024 indicated that the atmosphere is present, whereas the non-detection in 2025 indicates that it is ...

IFLScience recently spoke with Professor Florian Markowetz, Professor of Computational Oncology at the University of ...

Astronomers accidentally found the faintest planet ever imaged from Earth (a gas giant) after a decade-long galactic game of ...

The Lost City in question is a rocky metropolis of hydrothermal vents that sits at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, where ...

Scientists have taken a fresh look at an exceptionally preserved fossil of a crocodile-like animal called Montsecosuchus.