The Daily Galaxy –Great Discoveries Channel

Small crescent-shaped pits brought life back to barren land in Nigeria, revealing a low-tech climate solution with surprising potential and one catch.

For decades, scientists have studied sand dunes without a complete picture of where they exist and why they form. A new global study is now uncovering the surprising rules behind these ever-changing landscapes.

A Sicilian fisherman went looking for a rock formation underwater. Instead, he found a wreck that authorities are now calling one of the most important underwater discoveries in recent years, and the full details are still being confirmed.

A mysterious 1977 signal inspired a new lunar mission to place a telescope on the moon’s far side, where scientists hope to search the universe for hidden messages and rare cosmic signals.

For more than 10,000 years, the high Pyrenees have been far from the untouched wilderness they appear to be. A new archaeological study is uncovering a hidden human story buried across remote mountain landscapes.

Astronomers have found a planet that does not fit the rules scientists expected it to follow. How did such an unusual world come to exist?

China spent decades planting a green wall around one of Earth’s harshest deserts. Scientists say it’s now doing something few expected.

A long-forgotten crocodilian has emerged from the fossil record, revealing a prehistoric world unlike anything seen today. Researchers are uncovering how this ancient predator fit into one of Earth’s most unusual ecosystems.

A piece of amber bought at a Myanmar market was nearly turned into jewelry until scientists discovered a 99-million-year-old feathered dinosaur tail inside.

Deep in Egypt's Theban Necropolis, archaeologists uncovered a burial chamber packed with mummies spanning 700 years, hiding a bond between species that researchers are just beginning to understand.

A landmark UN assessment says decades of overuse have pushed critical water systems beyond the point where full recovery is realistic.

Hidden in the faint light coming from Neptune’s moons, scientists have found unexpected signs of a much older story. The discovery may explain why the planet’s satellite system looks so different from all the others.

A Manhattan rooftop machine is turning air, water and electricity into gasoline, reviving a bold fuel dream while exposing the efficiency and cost hurdles that could decide its future.

Satellite evidence reveals how reclamation transformed small reefs into a far more capable military network.

A tiny, chaotic galaxy has given astronomers something they had been searching for but had never confirmed in this type of system.

An extraordinary fossil discovery off Taiwan is bringing a forgotten human lineage back into the spotlight. After years of uncertainty, researchers now have a rare opportunity to explore what Denisovans were really like.

What if three black holes were living side by side in a single galaxy, at the dawn of the universe? That's the astonishing discovery a team of astronomers just made using the James Webb Space Telescope.

A Mammoth has been waiting hundreds of thousands of years for someone to find it. Now that a Bulgarian riverbank has finally given it up, researchers are left with more questions than answers about how it got there.

Built by hand and powered by the sun, Helios 11 set off across Europe without conventional fuel.

Plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is carrying coastal life thousands of kilometres offshore, and what scientists found changed the picture.