Science News21m
The world’s largest coral was discovered in the South Pacific
The behemoth coral, discovered in October in the Solomon Islands, is longer than a blue whale and older than the United States.
Live Science33m
World's biggest coral — so big it can be seen from space — discovered by chance off Solomon Islands
The world's biggest coral — an organism made up of about a billion polyps — is about three times bigger than the previous record-holder and was discovered by chance during an expedition off the ...
Basalt samples from Chang'e-6 mission offer insights on lunar farside volcanism
Basalt samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago ...
Chang'e-6 lunar samples reveal 2.83-billion-year-old basalt with depleted mantle source
The moon has a global dichotomy, with its near and far sides having different geomorphology, topography, chemical composition ...
Live Science4h
Where do fast radio bursts come from? Astronomers tie mysterious eruptions to massive galaxies
Fast radio bursts — powerful and poorly understood cosmic eruptions — tend to occur in massive galaxies that host long-dead ...
Mysterious far side of the moon once had erupting volcanoes, lunar soil retrieved by Chinese spacecraft confirms
Researchers analyzed lunar soil brought back by China's Chang'e-6, the first spacecraft to return with a haul of rocks and ...
Science News6h
A first look at rocks from the lunar farside create a volcanic mystery
Rocks returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission suggest volcanic activity just 2.8 billion years ago but lack telltale heat-generating elements.
Smithsonian Magazine19h
See Staggering Photos of the World’s Largest Coral, Newly Discovered by Scientists in the Pacific Ocean
The enormous organism is bigger than a blue whale and made up of millions of genetically identical, tiny animals called ...