Earthlings are able to see five of their closest planetary neighbors all lined up in a row this month. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn arealigned in their natural order across the morning s… [+1716 chars]
ByUniversity of Southern CaliforniaJune 10, 2022 Scientists have discovered evidence that the Earths inner core oscillates, contradicting previously held beliefs that it consistently rotates at a fa… [+6803 chars]
Lockheed Martin has completed the first-time power-up of the Orion capsule for the Artemis 2 mission — the first Orion capsule that will be tasked with carrying humans. As work continues on that cap… [+9504 chars]
Earthlings are able to see five of their closest planetary neighbors all lined up in a row this month. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn arealigned in their natural order across the morning s… [+1716 chars]
On a beautiful fall day in 2019, Miranda Sinnott-Armstrong was walking down Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado when something caught her eye: a small, particularly shiny blue fruit, on a shrub known a… [+5852 chars]
With its massive size, unusual scales and fearsome crocodile-like skull, the Spinosaurus has long been a dinosaur fan favorite its appearance is so distinct that it was portrayed as even larger and m… [+5653 chars]
The asteroid Ryugu contains some of the most primitive material ever studied in a laboratory on Earth, dating back to just 5 million years after the formation of the solar system, according to an ana… [+5413 chars]
Jupiter is composed almost entirely of hydrogen and helium. The amounts of each closely conform to the theoretical quantities in the primordial solar nebula. But it also contains other heavier elemen… [+6354 chars]
A unique telescope that focuses light with a slowly spinning bowl of liquid mercury instead of a solid mirror has opened its eye to the skies above India. Such telescopes have been built before, but … [+5410 chars]
The oldest 'belly button' known to science has been found on an exquisitely preserved horned dinosaur fossil from China. The slit-like scar comes not from an umbilical cord, as it does in mammals, b… [+3438 chars]
