The full moon can be a stunning sight in the night sky, but did you know it can dance? A new time-lapse video from astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has shown just that, the full moon appearing to d… [+3079 chars]
After a report from a customer of strange prints on the restaurants floor, Chinese paleontologists were brought in to investigate, and they confirmed that the depressions had, in fact, been left by t… [+707 chars]
The chance of someone being killed by space junk falling from the sky may seem ridiculously tiny. After all, nobody has yet died from such an accident, though there have been instances of injury and … [+6069 chars]
Scientists analysing data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft and computer modelling, have discovered shaded locations within pits on the Moon that always hover around a comfort… [+2677 chars]
Dinosaurs have captured peoples imaginations more than any other ancient creatures. These reptiles some large, some small; some carnivores and others herbivores rose and dominated the worlds landscap… [+5905 chars]
The clearest and most detailed image of the distant universe ever taken, captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), was released on July 11, 2022. This image, dubbed Webb's First Deep Fi… [+3846 chars]
We have a pretty good idea of what lurks within our solar system. We know there isn’t a Mars-sized planet orbiting between Jupiter and Saturn, nor a brown dwarf nemesis heading our way. Anything larg… [+2975 chars]
A decade ago it was a sky crane, a be-mohawked NASA engineer named Bobak and a $2.5 billion rover called Curiosity that took my career in a new direction. Mainly, it was the high-resolution photos … [+6062 chars]
Just one RNA virus, SARS-CoV-2, has changed the lives of billions of people in the past three years. What if I told you that a recent expedition found more than 5,500 new species of RNA viruses in oc… [+8843 chars]
New research may have answered a long-standing mystery by pinning a rough date on the earliest known humans in Canada’s oilsands region. In a recently published paper, professor Robin Woywitka of Ed… [+3790 chars]
Venus is not an inviting planet to visit. From the tremendously high pressure at its surface to its scorching temperatures hotter than an oven, the planet is not accommodating to visitors, be they hu… [+2862 chars]
Debris from a massive Chinese booster rocket arrived back to Earth on Saturday, according to the U.S. Space Command. The former rocket reentered Earth's atmosphere above the Indian Ocean at about 12:… [+3569 chars]
