Fossils of small plesiosaurs, long-necked marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs, have been found in a 100-million year old river system that is now Morocco's Sahara Desert. This discovery suggest… [+6169 chars]
Since yesterday and until tomorrow, JWST is busy with an exciting series of observations as part of the CECILIA project. It is looking at some ancient galaxies to detail their chemical composition. T… [+2655 chars]
Much of Nick Proach’s work is out of this world. Dawson Creek’s Proach is all about the art and detail behind space model making. While firmly entrenched in models from the real world – Proach is st… [+4732 chars]
Newswise — Black holes with varying light signatures but that were thought to be the same objects being viewed from different angles are actually in different stages of the life cycle, according to a… [+5300 chars]
A dense, collapsed star spinning 707 times per secondmaking it one of the fastest spinning neutron stars in the Milky Way galaxyhas shredded and consumed nearly the entire mass of its stellar compani… [+8772 chars]
An international team of scientists has released the updated and improved estimations of Potential Evapotranspiration and an Aridity Index for the entire world based upon a fully parameterized geospa… [+2981 chars]
Black holes with varying light signatures but that were thought to be the same objects being viewed from different angles are actually in different stages of the life cycle, according to a study led … [+5830 chars]
A depiction of Earth, first without an inner core; second, with an inner core beginning to grow, around 550 million years ago; third, with an outermost and innermost inner core, around 450 million ye… [+5138 chars]
In 1948/49, famed computer scientist, engineer, and physicist John von Neumann introduced the world to his revolutionary idea for a species of self-replicating robots (aka. “Universal Assemblers”). I… [+16124 chars]
About three years ago, Wolfgang "Wolfi" Mittig and Yassid Ayyad went looking for the universe's missing mass, better known as dark matter, in the heart of an atom. Their expedition didn't lead them … [+11358 chars]
The Sun's active status is worrying astronomers especially about them sparing strong geomagnetic storms on earth. The Sun is in its active phase and scientists are worried that the solar flares headi… [+2063 chars]
There is promising new work underway to pursue a deep space robotic interstellar mission. Called Interstellar Probe, this venture could capture a unified view of our heliosphere, out into nearby in… [+7014 chars]