The icy moon looms in sharp relief in images from a recent flyby.
Isaac Schultz
isaacschultz
Science writer at Gizmodo, previously of Atlas Obscura. A native New Yorker. Mostly covering ancient things (on Earth and beyond) and masses extremely big or incredibly small.
A firm funded by the CIA is the latest investor in Colossal Biosciences.
A quasar’s elemental makeup indicates it’s very, very ancient.
A half-inch fossil from China is an ancient cousin of modern filter feeders.
The gas giant is making its closest approach to Earth in 59 years.
Soil analysis from several Maya cities found levels of mercury that could harm health, and modern archaeologists…
The bubble is spinning around the galactic core at mind-boggling speeds.
Fossils from Wyoming reveal a relative of the living tuatara, the last remaining rhynchocephalian on Earth.
Have I been spoiled by the new space telescope? Probably.
The diamonds’ unusual crystal structure may make them harder than ordinary diamonds.
From turacos to ptarmigans, these photos show birds in all their avian glory.
One victim was stabbed, and the other was hit on the head, new research into the South American mummies finds.
A new shot from the Hubble Space Telescope reminds us that Webb isn’t the only show in town.
A recent genetic analysis sheds new light on the origin of donkeys.
"Most people, including Australians, don’t know about most mammals in Australia," says Jack Ashby, author of the new…
One of the most iconic stars in the sky, Betelgeuse, may have changed color over the last 2,000 years.
The cutting-edge space telescope has captured a huge, distant planet in four infrared bands.
Meet the new members of the Lygodactylus genus, natives of northern Madagascar.
The space agency translated the data points in Webb’s first images into sound, a process known as sonification.
The space probe left Earth in 1977, and it's still running—with some hiccups.