If an asteroid hit the Earth, part three So you burn things, kill everything in the ocean, and freeze the Earth, and it goes through about two years of constant winter, Scharringhausen added. He do… [+626 chars]
As the space around Earth becomes increasingly crowded due to the proliferation of satellites and space junk, the U.S. military has plans to expand its ability to identify and track objects to the mo… [+3971 chars]
NIH-funded study identifies brain cells that form boundaries between discrete events. Researchers have identified two types of cells in our brains that are involved in organizing discrete memories b… [+8484 chars]
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint mission of the European Space Agency and NASA, is officially halfway between our planet and the Sun. According to an ESA release, the spacecraft is currently 46.… [+2920 chars]
A black hole gets a large corona before it emits jets. This is revealed, among other things, by the heartbeat graph that an international team of astronomers has made of a black hole and a star orbit… [+3352 chars]
Update: SpaceX may have delayed its Starlink 4-10 launch from March 8th to March 9th. Continuing its relentless cadence, SpaceX appears to be on track to launch its fourth batch of Starlink satellit… [+2036 chars]
Dinosaur literally translates to fearfully great lizard, but for dinosaurs to become overlords (at least until 66 million years ago), they had to have evolved from something. The predecessors of din… [+3943 chars]
(CNN)More than 12,000 years ago, South America was teeming with an astonishing array of ice age beasts -- giant ground sloths the size of a car, elephantine herbivores and a deerlike animal with an e… [+3462 chars]
Pack hunting spiders exist in places other than your nightmares. While most spiders enjoy solitary lives, 20 of the roughly 50,000 known spider species live in colonies. One species, Anelosimus eximi… [+3229 chars]
You've probably heard of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope , but do you know what it's actually going to do? Webb is the most powerful telescope ever built, and its assorted instruments will give us… [+3319 chars]
Pack hunting spiders exist in places other than your nightmares. While most spiders enjoy solitary lives, 20 of the roughly 50,000 known spider species live in colonies. One species, Anelosimus eximi… [+3229 chars]
If you can't wait to travel in space, NASA is offering the public the chance to send their names on their next mission as they prepare to send humans back on the moon. Later this year, NASA will la… [+2282 chars]
