For years, researchers have questioned who created the “band of holes” site in Peru. A new study suggests it was an ancient marketplace.

There are thousands of aligned holes in Peru. Archaeologists now think they know who made them

By Ana Mano SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian agricultural research agency Embrapa has received the greenlight from health agency Anvisa to research the cannabis plant, a landmark move that puts farming

Brazil's agricultural research agency gets cannabis research greenlight

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A towering first-stage booster for an upgraded version of SpaceX's Starship rocket suffered a predawn testing failure in Texas on ​Friday, potentially complicating the company's push to prove the rocket's moon-landing abilities ‌for NASA, according to observers who captured it on video. Elon Musk's SpaceX had rolled the stainless steel booster out to ‌a testing pad on Thursday at the company's Starbase rocket facilities, saying it intended to test its redesigned propellant

First SpaceX booster for upgraded Starship fails during test in Texas

SpaceX began testing the newest version of its Starship Super Heavy booster overnight Thursday (Nov. 20), but by Friday morning (Nov. 21), it was clear those tests did not go as planned.

SpaceX's 1st 'Version 3' Super Heavy Starship booster buckles under pressure during initial tests

Rocket Lab launched a satellite for a "confidential commercial customer" on Thursday morning (Nov. 20), just a few hours after giving notice of the impending liftoff.

Rocket Lab launches mystery satellite for 'confidential commercial customer' (video)

"All that remained was the particular flat shape."

How did this 20-light-year-wide 'Diamond Ring' form in space? Maybe a cosmic bubble burst

The brief flashes were captured from Earth and could be from the Taurid meteor shower.

Astronomer captures 2 meteors slamming into the moon (video)

How AI fixed the James Webb Space Telescope's blurry vision

James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD'

"This discovery ends a protracted search for these waves that has its origins in the 1940s."

Scientists find twisting magnetic waves on the sun. Could this help solve a huge solar mystery?

Paleontologists spotted injuries on the tails of duck-billed dinosaur fossils that might have occurred during mating.

Mating injuries may lead scientists to identify dinosaurs’ sex

China's Shenzhou 20 and 21 astronauts enjoyed freshly cooked BBQ aboard the Tiangong space station recently, thanks to a new microgravity oven.

Watch Chinese astronauts enjoy '1st ever space BBQ' from Tiangong's brand-new oven (video)

Scientists working in Mexico have recorded multiple incidents in which a group of orcas hunt young great white sharks and eat their energy-rich livers.

Orcas seen hunting great white sharks to eat their livers in drone footage recorded in Mexico

Researcher Matthew Graham said scientists didn't initially "believe the numbers about the energy" emitting from the cosmic display.

Scientists discover black hole flare with the light of 10 trillion suns

The hunt for dark matter: a trivia quiz

Hubble sees spiral galaxy in Lion's heart | Space photo of the day for Nov. 4

Dark matter obeys gravity after all — could that rule out a 5th fundamental force in the universe?

NASA released new images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS — just the third cosmic visitor from elsewhere in the galaxy ever confirmed — on Wednesday.

NASA releases new photos of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

Multiple NASA missions captured images as an interstellar comet zoomed by Mars in October.

Astonishing interstellar comet captured in new images by NASA Mars missions

NASA unveiled close-up pictures on Wednesday of the interstellar comet that’s making a quick one-and-done tour of the solar system.  Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas is only the third confirmed object to visit our corner of the cosmos from another star.  Three NASA spacecraft on and near the red planet zoomed in on the comet as it passed just 18 million miles (29 million kilometers) away, revealing a fuzzy white blob.

NASA unveils close-up pictures of the comet popping by from another star

Ape ancestors and early humans likely kissed their friends and sexual partners, according to a new study.

Kissing is an ‘evolutionary conundrum.’ Scientists just mapped its unexpected origins

Astronomer Gianluca Masi captured breathtaking imagery of solar system comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) breaking into multiple pieces after being warmed by the sun.

Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) breaks apart in incredible telescope photos

This image shows Euclid's capability to explore both our cosmic neighborhood and the deep universe beyond.

Euclid space telescope sees gorgeous cosmic cloud | Space photo of the day for Nov. 18, 2025

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints of living organisms in ancient rocks,

New method spots signs of Earth's primordial life in ancient rocks

An archeological investigation into an ancient city in central Asia has shed new light on the region's economic history.

Bronze Age "City of Seven Ravines" unearthed in central Asia after 3,500 years

By Will Dunham (Reuters) -A clay figurine about 12,000 years old that was unearthed at the site of a prehistoric village overlooking the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel depicts a woman and a goose

Figurine of a woman and a goose offers peek at prehistoric beliefs

We are indeed still evolving, though it can be hard to tell because it happens over generations and often involves things you can’t see, such as what foods different people are able to digest.

If evolution is real, then why isn’t it happening now? An anthropologist explains that humans actually are still evolving

By Will Dunham (Reuters) -Microscopic magnetic fossils found in North Atlantic seafloor sediments may represent components of an internal "GPS system" for an ancient marine creature that used Earth's

Magnetic fossils may reveal ancient creature's internal 'GPS system'

This is great news for planetary defense.

Mars spacecraft images pinpoint comet 3I/ATLAS's path with 10x higher accuracy. This could help us protect Earth someday

Scientists newly described how a parasitic ant queen infiltrates another ant species’ colony and tricks the workers into killing their mother.

Scientists uncover an ant assassination scheme that helps a parasitic queen rise to power

With more Moon missions on the horizon, avoiding crowding and collisions will be a growing challenge

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