If the redshift from ALMA can be confirmed, then this would indeed be a spectacular object, said Marcia Rieke of the University of Arizona, who is a principal investigator for the Webb telescope. Ac… [+1573 chars]
An analysis of the genetic material in the ocean has identified thousands of previously unknown RNA viruses and doubled the number of phyla, or biological groups, of viruses thought to exist, accordi… [+5179 chars]
Five years ago, the United Nations' panel on climate change was charged with drafting a series of reports detailing its science, the effects on the planet and how humanity might save itself. The las… [+203 chars]
Ichthyosaur ill. Credit: Esther van Hulsen A new study published in PeerJ uses modern methods to understand the preservation of unique ichthyosaur fossils. One complete animal and one tail are the f… [+3902 chars]
To avoid patches of knife-edged rocks, the mission has taken an alternative path up Mount Sharp. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover spent most of March climbing the “Greenheugh Pediment” – a gentle slope c… [+5068 chars]
Powerful, radio-wavelength laser light has been detected emanating from the greatest distance across deep space yet. It's a type of massless cosmic object called a megamaser, and its light has trave… [+3749 chars]
(CNN)An asteroid the size of a small house flew by Earth Tuesday evening. The space rock came within 79,000 miles (127,000 kilometers) of Earth, or about one-third of the distance between the moon a… [+2425 chars]
About 60% of Big John's skeletal remains were discovered. Here, you can see the Triceratops' entire skeleton after the restoration work was complete. (Image credit: Zoic LLC) A violent encounter wit… [+5353 chars]
Earth has a continuous gas leak, but its nothing like what comes out of your car. These are the exhaust fumes of the Big Bang that escape from the planets core. Primordial gases were swirling around… [+4050 chars]
An international team of astronomers, including researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has spotted the most distant astronomical object ever: a galaxy. Named HD1, th… [+4874 chars]
Our Milky Way galaxy lives in a small group of others including the Andromeda galaxy and a few dozen much smaller ones. But bigger groups exist: Galaxy clusters can have hundreds of big galaxies in t… [+6650 chars]
