Over the two decades paleontologist Kevin Padian taught a freshman seminar called The Age of Dinosaurs, one question asked frequently by undergraduates stuck with him: Why are the arms of Tyrannosaur… [+8719 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]
NASA on Friday began a critical two-day-long test of its giant Space Launch System (SLS) rocket complete with a simulated countdown, as the agency gears up to send humans to the moon again. Known as… [+2922 chars]
A planet 'almost identical' to Jupiter has been spotted orbiting a star 17,000 light years from Earth by NASA's Kepler telescope, scientists have revealed. The exoplanet, K2-2016-BLG-0005Lb, is alm… [+8442 chars]
Semiconducting perovskites that exhibit superfluorescence at room temperature do so due to built-in thermal "shock absorbers" which protect dipoles within the material from thermal interference. A ne… [+3101 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]
There are so many secrets in space for humanity to unravel. And the same applies to our very own Earth! The question about our planet that arises the most is- how was the earth formed? Now, a rare ga… [+2182 chars]
Tomorrow's weather may be cloudy with a chance of electrons, thanks to a newly detected phenomenon in Earth's magnetic shield. Described as unexpected, ultra-fast "electron precipitation," the pheno… [+3371 chars]
There are major flaws in current carbon cycle estimates, which might have a big impact on our understanding of how carbon dioxide moves through the atmosphere. In order to correctly track and foreca… [+1770 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]
The view of the region in space where the Jupiter-like planet was found. University of Manchester Scientists have discovered a distant planet similar to Jupiter using data taken from the retired Ke… [+1966 chars]
NASA isn't done evaluating the career of telescope namesake James Webb, officials said after controversy surrounding the flagship observatory's name has continued since last summer. James Webb was t… [+6375 chars]
