Giant crocodiles once roamed northeastern British Columbia. A recently published article in Historical Biology features the first detailed trace fossil evidence ever reported of giant crocodilians. T… [+3901 chars]
Hidden in Plain Sight: faint galaxy discovered in our local universe The galaxy has a ghost-like' appearance in the optical images because of its low disk density, but the inner disk shows star for… [+612 chars]
It's the first day of a new month in the year 2022 and the fascinating show by asteroids continues unabated! And yes, there is an asteroid today heading for a close approach with Earth. NASA confirme… [+1833 chars]
Virginia Tech researchers, in collaboration with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, have discovered that key parts of the global carbon cycle used to track movement of carbon dioxide in the envir… [+5685 chars]
An abundance of food for astronauts venturing on long-duration space missions would be utterly important to keep the wheels of planetary exploration moving. While scientists have already grown plants… [+2408 chars]
Black hole illustration. Credit: Aurore Simonnet and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center <ul><li>To look for black holes around the “Spiderweb” galaxy, astronomers observed for over 8 days with NASA’… [+4772 chars]
Supernova Cassiopeia A is one of the best-studied supernova remnants in the Milky Way. From our point of view, the shell of plasma has been expanding for 350 years at an average rate of between 4,000… [+2465 chars]
To fulfil Elon Musks goal of 60 Falcon 9 launches this year, SpaceX is preparing for another mission on April 1. Named Transporter-4, the upcoming launch is SpaceXs fourth dedicated smallsat rideshar… [+1730 chars]
In our age, we’ve grown accustomed to pictures of astronauts inside the International Space Station, as they float in zero-G and tend their science experiments. We’re even getting used to images of s… [+2172 chars]
China has just set up its laboratory for deep space exploration, Taindu, in the Chinese province of Anhui. The unit will conduct scientific, technological and engineering research to support the coun… [+2748 chars]
A singular scientific finding has drawn the attention of the academic world, particularly the geology. Is about two giant spots found in the deepest layers of the planet Earth. One of the spots is … [+2039 chars]
A colorized image of Cassiopeia A based on data from the Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) A powerful shock wave traveling through a cloud of gas left be… [+6263 chars]
