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… [+2767 chars]
When our sun exhausts the hydrogen fuel in its core some 5 billion years from now, it will expand to become a red giant, engulfing the inner planets. The dynamics and possible outcomes of planetary e… [+4529 chars]
But two groups of theorists are still working to reconcile their predictions of what g-2 should be, while they wait for more data from the Fermilab experiment. The g-2 anomaly is still very much ali… [+1596 chars]
Skygazers are in for a celestial treat later this month. Mark your calendar for June 24, as a rare sky event will be taking place on this midsummer morning. According to the Farmers’ Almanac, all fi… [+1281 chars]
Scientists say they have discovered remains on Britain's Isle of Wight that might belong to a meat-eating dinosaur larger than any other known from Europe. The creature was closely related to the b… [+3652 chars]
Later this month, skywatchers in Africa can watch a star blink out of sight thanks to a quirk of celestial arrangements. The European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia , which launched in 2013, has b… [+6393 chars]
Students with the Dalhousie Space Systems Lab have constructed the first satellite made in Nova Scotia and it will soon be launched into space an Atlantic Canadian first. Several universities receiv… [+2282 chars]
More than a century ago, scientists were stumped by the discovery of an unusual fossil unearthed from a Scottish quarry. The remains suggested a toothless eel-like creature with a potentially cartila… [+5365 chars]
For tens of millions of years, our newborn Universe was shrouded in hydrogen. Bit by bit, this vast mist was torn apart by the light of the very first stars in a dawn that defined the shape of the em… [+3510 chars]
Researchers from Ohio University presented evidence for a new carbon solid called “amorphous graphite” this week, as the world’s need for carbon-based materials, like graphite, increases. (left side… [+5853 chars]
From a zoomed out, distant view, star-forming cloud L483 appears normal. But when a Northwestern University-led team of astrophysicists zoomed in closer and closer, things became weirder and weirder.… [+5021 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope may not be as alone as it appears in its new home far from Earth. The telescopes pocket of space isnt completely vacuum and now the unavoidable has occurred, with a ti… [+3914 chars]