For those who enjoy watching the skies, there are reasons to live long and prosper.

Atmospheric rivers have shifted about 6° to 10° closer to the poles over the past 40 years.

Keep that in your back pocket for the next time someone tells you that you’re too sensitive – you can’t help it.

According to the theory, our reality is encoded on the boundary of a black hole within a much larger universe.

Hurricanes are getting stronger – does that mean we should change how we categorize them?

The structures were used for just a few weeks, 18,000 years ago.

Stromboli's got a pretty magma-nificent work ethic.

Fishing cats helped a team of scientists figure out where to put their camera traps.

Drains despise oil, but people love frisbees.

Pass the mocktail.

Grab your walking shoes - when it comes to heart health, longer is better.

Clue: the country is known for its grey skies, wet weather, and tea drinkers.

The model lets scientists study the genome across time and space.

From humans and dinosaurs to starfish and seagrass, we are all Asgardian.

Something to ponder when selecting your coffin of choice.

There’s more to this immense nebula than just a memorable name, and Hubble leaves many questions unanswered.

“It looked like a man, but completely covered with hair."

It's thought around 150 people were on board, 30 of whom died before the ship made it out of port.

Lost soles at sea.

"After my family had finished having a good laugh at me, they bantered with me about what a thicko I am," one user wrote, "and then they all laughed at me some more again."

City life is reshaping rodents in real time, from skulls to snouts, right under our noses.

Lots of plants that we bring indoors at this time of year can be harmful to our furry friends.

Sales of meat substitutes are on the rise.

The team found nine "events" that they investigated further. Meanwhile, another team looked at the "non-gravitational" acceleration of the comet, finally pinning down a better estimate of its size.

Even at Christmas gaining 2 kilograms a day is a challenge for most of us, but Jabulani does it year-round.

Its entirely red head is a first for the genus.

To calculate the 10th might require the entire energy output of the sun itself.

The fires are “indicators of a system undergoing rapid transformation,” say researchers.

The perfect relaxing thing to sneak off and watch whilst your family argues over the post-Christmas dinner game of Monopoly.

Serious claims, controversial claims, and the most absurd claims… but also big plans!

Yes, and it can even tell you what type of mold is setting up shop in your house.

Perihelion – Earth's closest approach to our host star – will take place on January 3, 2026.

Things could spiral out of control very quickly.

It even shares similarities with the parasite that causes malaria.

Oxygen was scarce, but if this analysis is correct, abundant enough to raise questions about why animals didn’t show up for hundreds of millions of years.

Vinicunca may look fake, but it's all real.

"It's complicated" is a good way to explain most relationships.

"The cosmic dipole anomaly has thus established itself as a major challenge to the standard cosmological model, even if the astronomical community has chosen to largely ignore it," Professor Subir Sarkar of the University of Oxford said.

This year has seen major scientific breakthroughs in space and physics, as well as in health and medicine.

All you need is a sheep and an open mind.

Pine vs plastic: which tree really wins for the planet?

As emotional support pals go, it’s pretty damn adorable.

Stick around for another 100 years and we may find out.

The days are getting longer in the Northern Hemisphere, but dawn will get later still.

Forget hibernating, this is much cooler.

The clue's in the name – don't take the bait!

After a particularly nasty windstorm in Boulder, Colorado, official US time slowed ever so slightly.

People have been using the word "Xmas" for centuries.

We’re definitely stardust, but new models are required to explain how that is possible.

As one Redditor recently put it: "Is showering more hygienic than bathing because you aren't sitting in a bunch of butthole and foot soup?"

The already record-breaking event may have been magnified.

Some species are only known from cultivated clones of just one sex.

What do cybercrime, the placebo effect, and driving have in common? They can all be better understood with a bit of magic.

The artwork is thought to be over 17,000 years old.

How do you drive ice to penance? Sublimation.

Let that sink in.

The new observatory is going to really shake things up in astronomy.

For months these explosions have been the pool’s dirty little secret, happening when no one could film them, but now it’s been caught in the act.

Just one other record of moths drinking tears exists outside the tropics.

The time a spider plant mom remains tethered to her spiderette can be influenced by the daughter plant's environment.

The controversial Harvard astronomer is one of the main sources of the "alien mothership" hypothesis. This is what he thinks, as the object moves away from Earth.

We finally know what took down the giant.

Multiple human ancestors may have been mingling.

Light pollution from satellites affects more than just the Earth.

An extra stage has been identified for the first time that helps explain why ice can have a liquid layer at the surface even below freezing point.

The headline may be gouda, but we probably shouldn’t brie-lieve the hype.

“It fills your head. It gets to you in ways that are unimaginable.”

People were finding out they were pregnant via frogs until the 1960s.

East Africa may look very different in five to ten million years.

The answer, as usual, is somewhere in the middle.

That would be the dream.

The answer is right under your nose. Obviously.

It’s not exactly a force field, but it does offer our planet some protection.

Is he a goner or just lying low?

All the biggest science news stories of the week.

It's not an alien spaceship, but it might be packing key ingredients for life – more so than comets from our own Solar System.

It’s not quite as simple as these claims make it sound, but the answer is closer to yes than no.

“We know that donor organs are capable of influencing what’s going in the body for many people.”

What if Christ wasn't born on Christmas?

Like having 102 new views of the universe!

Meet B, the really old ribbon worm.

Meet Nepenthes megastoma, the carnivorous plant with a big mouth and a big appetite.

This might be the tipping point for the already critically endangered Tapanuli orangutans.

The comet will be farther than the Sun, but there are still ways to see it as it swings by.

Combining astronomical precision and engineering prowess, these prehistoric monuments are simply astounding.

Are we boldly going with the force, or what? Shiny.

Oxpeckers: pals or pests?

Wombat networking really puts the “bum” in Bumble.

Does this mean the s^heads who made IFLScience change our name were undermining us all?

The job market is tough at the moment, but conferences can be a great place to network and share ideas. Here’s how Pittcon can help you advance your career.

Every episode of season 5 of The Big Questions podcast is now available, where we explore the biggest questions in science with a host of top experts to fire them at.

Fomalhaut is a young star 25 light-years away, and it has a lot going on around it.

An overlooked community absorbs 50-100 times as much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere per square meter as tropical rainforests.

Could 3200 Phaethon be responsible?

A tale of loss, love, and a lot of iguanas.

It’s been over a year since the billionaire’s name was put forward.

The one-minute timelapse shows the rover traverse the Martian terrain, and cross its own tracks from earlier in the year.

Perhaps we’re wrong about the date of the catastrophe.

“What is essential for this problem is a global consciousness [...] that transcends our exclusive identifications with the generational and political groupings into which by accident we have been born.”

Over a dozen of these blue outbursts are known, but their source has been uncertain.

Rockin' all over the world.