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]
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku states that he often gives his students a specific thought experiment. It involves calculating the probability that they wake up on Mars tomorrow, due to the vagarie… [+1321 chars]
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]
One is a climate scientist and the other is an astronomer. They direct the scientific trends of space for their countries. This week, NASA’s new chief scientist, Catherine Calvin, met up in St. Huber… [+4623 chars]
Dust is an everyday feature on Mars and wreaks havoc on various pieces of equipment humans decide to send to it, such as Insight’s continual loss of power or the losses of Opportunity and Spirit. But… [+3192 chars]
The skies overhead could soon be filled with constellations of commercial space stations occupying low earth orbit while human colonists settle the Moon with an eye on Mars, if today's robber barons … [+5345 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]
A newly published study found that the range of colors in the plumages of hummingbirds exceeds the total color diversity of all other bird species combined © Copyright by GrrlScientist | @GrrlScient… [+14061 chars]
For billions of years after the origin of life, the only living things on Earth were tiny, primitive cells resembling todays bacteria. But then, more than 1.5 billion years ago, something remarkabl… [+10781 chars]
It has been more than 50 years since astronomers first proposed dark matter, which is thought to be the most common form of matter in the universe. Despite this, we have no idea what it is nobody h… [+6443 chars]
NASA is scheduled to release the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope on July 12, 2022. Theyll mark the beginning of the next era in astronomy as Webb the largest space telescope ev… [+6470 chars]
