Scientists have captured incredible footage of a deep-sea mother squid clutching dozens of unusually huge eggs.
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Scientists from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) National Solar Observatory (NSO) and New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) used groundbreaking adaptive optics to capture sharpest ever photos and videos of the Sun's corona, the outermost layer of its atmosphere. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2025-05-30 22:37
Physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have captured the first photos ever of "free-range" atoms. The groundbreaking achievement will help scientists visualize quantum phenomena in real-world space. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2025-05-08 00:09
Scientists in New Zealand had to do a double take and send up a drone after they spotted an octopus riding on top of a shark. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2025-03-21 19:36
Researchers captured first-of-its-kind footage of a new glow-in-the-dark species of sea slug living in the "midnight zone" of the ocean -- a part untouched by sunlight more than 7,000ft below the surface. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-11-13 19:44
Scientists captured eerie photos of a mysterious elephant burial -- that revealed how animals mourn and bury their dead in a poignantly similar way to humans. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-03-05 17:20
Researchers on board the NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer have captured gorgeous footage of what is known as a glass squid. While this creature isn't rare, close-up views of it like this truly highlight its beauty. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-08-18 20:46
Scientists have, for the first time, recorded a millimeter-wavelength light explosion caused by the merging of a neutron star with another star. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-08-04 19:10
An international team of researchers believe they have discovered the fastest-growing black hole of the past nine billion years. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-06-16 19:07
Scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have captured stunning footage of a new species of deep-sea jellyfish. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-04-25 22:50
In April of 2018, a team of scientists made an imaging breakthrough that allowed them to capture this incredible video of an immune cell moving through the tissues of a zebra fish’s inner ear, picking up sugar particles as it goes along. petapixel.com »
2019-11-26 01:23
A team of scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) have figured out how to capture super slow-motion footage using what’s called an “Event Camera.” That is: a camera that sees the world in a continuous stream of information, the way humans do. Regular cameras work by capturing discreet frames, […] petapixel.com »
2019-07-09 22:23
When an object breaks the sound barrier—accelerates to the point where it’s moving faster than the speed of sound—it creates pressure waves that result in what is called a “sonic boom” and Mach cone. petapixel.com »
2017-01-23 22:28
Rare footage shows a squid hauling thousands of eggs across the ocean: a once-in-a-lifetime feat that lasts several months and requires the mother to never let go of their unhatched offspring -- not even to eat. [Read More]