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Lielaphis slashi is the new Papua New Guinea snake officially named after Slash, of Guns N’ Roses, after 20 years without a name.

A NASA-backed team confirms the youngest planet in the universe, less than a million years old and already Jupiter-sized.

A new study in Science Advances confirms Saturn’s giant decagon: bigger and less stable than the planet’s famous north-pole hexagon.

A fossilized feather hidden inside dinosaur poop now helps explain why certain ancient birds survived a mass extinction.

An archaeologist finds a medieval gold ring under a Norwegian street, intact after 800 years underground. Read the full story.

Scientists found the first T. rex footprints from a walking adult, a 7-meter trackway that reveals how it moved 66 million years ago.

The Devil’s Arrows hide a mystery: why Neolithic Britain hauled 25-ton stones 11 miles when closer quarries sat right there.

The Atacama flowering desert is gearing up for one of its most intense blooms yet, after a historic snowfall in the driest place on Earth.

Meet the devil flower: a black, chlorophyll-free plant that Thailand had been hiding underground for ages, unseen by anyone.

Saturn’s decagon just appeared at its south pole, and not even the Hubble telescope expected it. Here’s what may cause it.