Page Updated: Wednesday, March 04, 2026 4:08 PM ET

Live Science - Science

'Truly extraordinary': Mega-laser shooting at us from halfway across the universe is the brightest 'cosmic beacon' we've ever seen - By - Harry Baker - published - 4 March 26 - Astronomers have discovered the brightest and most distant "megamaser" to date. The cosmic energy beam is shooting toward Earth from 8 billion light-years away and was spotted thanks to a weird space-time trick first predicted by Einstein.

3 hours ago

Chewed-up orca fins on Russian beach point to cannibalism, and scientists say it may explain why some pods are so tight-knit - By - Chris Simms - published - 4 March 26 - Detached orca fins scored with distinctive tooth marks suggest that killer whale cannibalism is happening - and it might explain some complex orca societies.

4 hours ago

NASA fixes Artemis II rocket for April launch to take astronauts around moon - By - Patrick Pester - published - 4 March 26 - NASA's Artemis II is on track to shoot for the moon in April after engineers fixed the helium issue that grounded the mission's rocket last month.

5 hours ago

Birds are declining faster and faster in 3 US hotspots, new study finds - By - Patrick Pester - published - 4 March 26 - Researchers have revealed that North American birds are declining at an accelerating rate in three regional hotspots associated with intense agriculture.

5 hours ago

Meet the world's smallest AI supercomputer - it packs 'doctorate-level intelligence', its makers say, and can fit into your pocket - By - Alan Bradley - published - 4 March 26 - The portable computing powerhouse is capable of running 120-billion-parameter LLMs, roughly three times larger than GPT-3, without needing to access the internet or the cloud.

8 hours ago

Prehistoric water-dwelling weirdo with sideways teeth and a twisted jaw was already a 'living fossil' 275 million years ago - By - Aristos Georgiou - published - 4 March 26 - Scientists have described Tanyka amnicola, a newly identified species of prehistoric creature that lived 275 million years ago and had a bizarre twisted jaw with sideways-facing teeth.

21 hours ago

Mysterious 'dots' discovered by Webb telescope may be the first stars in the universe on the verge of collapse - By - Shreejaya Karantha - published - 3 March 26 - A new study suggests that "little red dots" spied by the James Webb Space Telescope could be the universe's short-lived first generation of gigantic stars, challenging an existing theory.

23 hours ago

Stone Age woman was buried like a man, revealing flexible gender roles 7,000 years ago in Hungary - By - Kristina Killgrove - published - 3 March 26 - A study of 125 skeletons from two Neolithic cemeteries in Hungary has revealed that men and women had clear gender roles - but sometimes those roles were fluid.

23 hours ago

'Blood moon' total eclipse dazzles millions around the world (photos) By - Brandon Specktor, Ben Turner - published - 3 March 26 - Here are the first images of the March 3 'blood moon' total lunar eclipse visible over North America, Australia, and eastern Asia.

1 day ago

Every ant is a queen in this parasitic species - and they reproduce by cloning themselves and hijacking other ant colonies - By - Chris Simms - published - 3 March 26 - A rare Japanese ant is the only species known to lack female workers and males; all of its young develop into parasitic queens that try to take over other colonies.

1 day ago

'Spiderwebs' spotted on Mars as NASA's moon program gets a major shakeup, tigers set to return to Kazakhstan, and why 'monogenic' diseases might not be so simple after all. By - Ben Turner - published - 28 February 26 - Science news this week - Feb. 28, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

4 days ago