The ocean is full of surprises, and scientists are still finding creatures that seem almost unreal. From tiny reef animals to ...

A famous night-sky object has yielded a surprise: a narrow, bar-shaped cloud made of highly ionized iron. The discovery comes from a European team led by astronomers at University College London and ...

The universe has a knack for throwing curveballs at astronomers. Just when scientists think they’ve got cosmic mechanics figured out, space reveals something so bizarre it rewrites the rulebook. These ...

Kew Gardens has revealed the strangest plant and fungi discoveries new to science in 2025 – but some are already nearly extinct.

If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that it’s been a weird year. And while that doesn’t really set 2025 apart from the last – well – decade, this year that trend spilt over into science too ...