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Deimos may owe both its enormous south-polar depression and strangely smooth surface to a single 300-metre asteroid impact — a blow whose debris spread around the entire moon and would mean Mars’s smaller satellite is essentially a porous rubble pile

Humpback whales are interrupting orca hunts to rescue completely different species, swimming underneath a doomed seal and lifting it out of the water on their chest, or forming a wall between the killers and a grey whale calf, and scientists still can't fully explain why they bother to save animals they have nothing to gain from

Thought of the day from philosopher Socrates: "He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."

Webb spectra found an ancient massive galaxy packed with far more small, faint stars than expected, implying some of the universe’s earliest giants may be roughly four times heavier than astronomers calculated — deepening the mystery of how they formed so quickly
