Tianwen-1’s Interstellar Stare: China’s Mars Orbiter Captures Comet 3I/ATLAS in Stunning New Photos Our interstellar visitor, Comet 3I/ATLAS, is proving that space exploration is truly a global effort. While the mysterious object was temporarily hidden from the mighty telescopes of…
3I/ATLAS, Interstellar Comet, Alien Spacecraft A mysterious visitor is streaking through our Solar System, travelling at a blinding speed of over 60 kilometers per second. It’s the third interstellar object ever detected, and its arrival has immediately split the scientific…
Hairy Snail, Lagocheilus hayaomiyazakii, Studio Ghibli, New Species Imagine hiking through a lush, misty forest, and there, hiding amongst the damp leaves, you spot something straight out of a whimsical animated film. It’s a tiny, brown snail, but its shell…
An artistic illustration showing comets delivering both regular and heavy water to Earth. Image credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO Vosteen, B. Saxton At Fact Fun, we often look back at Earth’s origins, but this time scientists looked even further — and what…
At Fact Fun, we love when science uncovers moments that seem almost too whimsical to be real. Recently, a sea pig — a bizarre deep-sea relative of the sea cucumber — was caught on camera “dancing” over 2,300 meters (7,500…
Who needs eyes when you dwell in the ocean’s deepest, darkest depths? Image credit: NOAA/OAR/OER, 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas, Leg 3. At Fact Fun, we dive into stories that prove how little we still know about life beneath…
NASA’s GRACE mission created this gravity map.Image credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio At Fact Fun, we love uncovering science stories that make us question what we know about our planet. In 2023, NASA scientists detected a 7,000-kilometer gravity anomaly stretching…
At Fact Fun, we often explore the strange ways animals communicate—and this time, the spotlight is on a bat species with a courtship ritual no one has ever seen before. Known as the masked seducer bat, this recently described species…
At Fact Fun, we love uncovering stories where science pushes the limits of human experience. A recent case study describes a 16-year-old teenager with extraordinary “mental time travel abilities”—a capacity to vividly revisit past experiences and project herself into imagined…
The Cosmic Horseshoe showcases a colossal structure hidden within another cosmic giant.Image Credit: NASA/ESA/STScI At Fact Fun, we love uncovering stories that stretch the limits of imagination—and the universe. This time, astronomers may have stumbled upon something truly colossal: what…