The Cambrian Explosion around 541 million years ago was when life and organisms really got going on planet Earth. Now new research has revealed how that explosion of life has left behind traces deep … [+3242 chars]
When a rogue meteor careened through the atmosphere of Jupiter last year, it caught the attention of NASA's Juno spacecraft in orbit around the giant planet. The brief and sudden flash in Jupiter'… [+3736 chars]
Sometimes, the Sun seems like a mystical glowing orb. Then it turns into a fire-breathing beast. The dragon was really unleashed when ESAs Solar Orbiter recently caught our star belching hot plasma … [+3623 chars]
Illustration of a swarm of smaller black holes in a gas disk rotating around a giant black hole. Credit: J. Samsing/Niels Bohr Institute Researchers provide the first plausible explanation to why on… [+6979 chars]
Illustration of a swarm of smaller black holes in a gas disk rotating around a giant black hole. Credit: J. Samsing/Niels Bohr Institute Researchers provide the first plausible explanation to why on… [+6979 chars]
NASA says it is considering studying sex in space, as it is 'crucial' for future long-haul missions to the Moon and Mars, that could see astronauts away from Earth for years. This was said in respon… [+12526 chars]
What happens to information after it has passed beyond the event horizon of a black hole? There have been suggestions that the geometry of wormholes might help us solve this vexing problem but the ma… [+3719 chars]
When a rogue meteor careened through the atmosphere of Jupiter last year, it caught the attention of NASA's Juno spacecraft in orbit around the giant planet. The brief and sudden flash in Jupiter'… [+3736 chars]
The NASA visualization team created a superposition of an image of the Milky Way, taken by the European Space Agency’s Gaia space observatory, and a visualization of the simulations of the eRosita an… [+6681 chars]
Ants have the ability to sniff out cancerous cells in humans, a new study has discovered, suggesting they could be used for cancer diagnosis in future. Researchers from the French National Centre fo… [+5010 chars]
Having never evolved wings, many species of spider instead evolved an uncanny ability to take to the skies using nothing more than a few short threads of gossamer dangling from their dainty butts. J… [+3535 chars]
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