Paleontologists have discovered the oldest belly button known to science on a 125 million-year-old fossil of a dinosaur in the genus Psittacosaurus. Oh, the fossil also had the first dinosaur butthol… [+3449 chars]
No one can go into space without special arrangements for oxygen because there is no air in space outside the earth. They have to wear a space suit as there is no air pressure. If not, it is a respo… [+2514 chars]
Look to the east-northeastern horizon before dawn on Monday (June 27) to see the moon wrap up its monthly tour of the morning plants with Mercury. "The silver sliver of the old moon's crescent will… [+1952 chars]
In 2014, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) dispatched its Hayabusa2 spacecraft to rendezvous with 162173 Ryugu, a Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) that periodically passes close to Earth. In 2… [+4661 chars]
The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped countless of jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring photos of what it sees in space through the years. Nebulae, in particular, have been a frequent subject of the Hubble's… [+2645 chars]
AR3038, a sunspot, doubled in size between Sunday and Monday night. It has now rotated to face the Earth, raising fears that powerful solar winds will be directed at the Blue Planet. On Sunday, NASAs… [+2879 chars]
ByNASAJune 26, 2022 Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National Advisor… [+5260 chars]
Researchers have found a new way to detect some of the most cataclysmic mergers in the universe before they happen. Neutron stars , the extremely dense cores of massive dead stars, spiraling toward… [+5668 chars]
A crescent moon sets behind the Statue of Liberty on December 17, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by ... [+] Gary Hershorn/Getty Images) Getty Images Each Monday I pick out the northern hemispheres c… [+4321 chars]
Rebuilding of marine ecosystems after the devastation at the end of the Permian invited multiple lineages of reptiles to the marine habitat, leading to the well-known explosive radiation of marine re… [+9292 chars]
A supernova is the cataclysmic explosion of a star. A thermonuclear supernova explosion of a white dwarf is supposed to be the terminal event in the life of its progenitor star. These thermonuclear … [+4899 chars]
Since Putins order to invade Ukraine in late February 2022, tensions between Russia and the West have spilled over into their respective space programs. Given that Russia was an active participant i… [+2736 chars]
