A new study led by palaeontologists at University College Cork (UCC) has revealed remarkable new evidence that has solved a long-running mystery about the flying relatives of dinosaurs.Through the st… [+3232 chars]
Skywatchers will finally be able to enjoy the thrill of observing "shooting stars" again this week as the April Lyrids meteor shower arrives after a three-month-long meteor drought. For those who en… [+7273 chars]
In 2003, archaeologists looking for evidence of the migration of modern humans from Asia to Australia stumbled across a small, fairly complete skeleton of an extinct human species on the Indonesian i… [+2644 chars]
NASA: After the quiet last week without any asteroid activity, two dangerous looking asteroids are now making their way towards Earth and will make their closest approach on Friday, April 22. The Ame… [+2114 chars]
11 with 7 posters participating Produced and directed by Corey Eisenstein. Click here for transcript. After spending three episodes looking to the heavensfirst at dark matter, then Mars, then black… [+1412 chars]
An international team of astronomers has discovered the most distant astronomical object of all time: a galaxy. Shining only about 300 million years after the Big Bang, it may contain the oldest star… [+4072 chars]
MiniThis will be the first of two partial solar eclipses in 2022, as the second will occur on 25 October 2022.
Although invisible to us, every teaspoon of seawater contains more than a million marine bacteria. These tiny microbes play pivotal roles in governing the chemical cycles that control our climate and… [+3398 chars]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the companys Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard is seen on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A during a brief static fire test ahead of NASAs SpaceX Crew-4 mission, Wednesd… [+1501 chars]
NASA's next-generation spaceship, Orion, is designed to take humans farther than they've ever gone before. During Artemis I, an uncrewed flight test that will provide a foundation for human deep spac… [+2039 chars]
From the muscle fibers that move us to the enzymes that replicate our DNA, proteins are the molecular machinery that makes life possible. Protein function heavily depends on their three-dimensional … [+6439 chars]
