Super Light Carbon Found on Mars Points to Life or Annoyingly, Other Processes
PICTURED: Curiosity rover taking a selfie. PC: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/MSSS Story at a glance… Curiosity rover has discovered samples of sedimentary…
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2022 Space Missions: A New Space Station, Moon Mining, A Mars Rover and Webb’s Debut
Exponential growth in the public and private space sectors are increasing the number of launches yearly, and 2022 promises…
A Christmas Miracle: James Webb Space Telescope Was Launched and is Working
PICTURED: Ariane 5 with the James Webb Space Telescope launches from ELA-3 in French Guiana. PC: ESA. Story at…
2000 Year Old Tomb Confirmed as Belonging to Celebrated Han Emperor
PICTURED: Pottery figurines lie on the floor of the mausoleum of Emperor Wen of Han in Xi’an, Shaanxi province.…
Teenage Elephants Act Like Delinquents If There Are No Bull Males Around
PICTURED: Adolescent elephants bothering some hippos. PC: Connie Allen, Univ. of Exeter. Released. New research has found that the…
Fossilized Footprints Show Cretaceous Hunting Dinosaurs Were Fast and Surprisingly Agile
PICTURED: One of the La Torre 6A trackway footprints from La Rioja, Spain. PC: Pablo Navarro-Lorbés. Spanish paleontologists studying…
To Nudge an Asteroid NASA to Rely Not on a Missile But a DART
PICTURED: Illustration of the DART spacecraft flying into the asteroid Dimorphos. PC: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben. Can slamming an…
From Turkey to Korea, People Share a Common Language Invented to Describe Millet Farming
PICTURED: A woman harvests millet in a field in Zaozhuang city, East China’s Shandong province, on Sept 7, 2016.…
Largest Ever Anglo-Saxon Gold Coin Hoard Found in Norfolk
PICTURED: The Norfolk Hoard, one of the most important ever found. PC: British Museum. Released. A hoard of 131…
Raise a Horn of Mead to the Vikings’ Remarkable Voyage to North America Precisely 1,000 Years Ago—New Research Finds
PICTURED: The reconstructed archaeological site at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, also known by the mythical name of “Vinland,” home…
Small Town Sweden Reaches for the Sky Building the World’s Tallest Wooden Skyscraper
PICTURED: The Sara Cultural Center and Wood Hotel, Skellefteå, Sweden. PC: White Arkitekter. Released. Story at a glance… The…
Most Powerful Space Telescope Ever Nears Launch Date: Promises to Unravel Deepest Secrets of the Universe
PICTURED: The fully assembled James Webb Space Telescope with its sunshield and unitized pallet structures that fold up around…
The ‘Father of Lizards’—Key Missing Descendant of All Modern Lizards Found in Argentina
PICTURED: The most primitive member of lepidosaurs, Taytalura alcoberi. PC: from scientific illustrator Jorge Blanco. The title “Father of…
A Genetic Mapping of Polynesia Tracks the Settlement of Oceania in Exquisite Detail
PICTURED: The Moai heads of Rapa Nui, or Easter island. CC 4.0. Story at a glance… A new genetic…
The Sonar-Blocking Secret Beneath Beautiful Moths — A Sophisticated Defense System Revealed
PICTURED: The Luna moth, or Actias luna, uses its twisted forewings like a radar jammer. A horseshoe bat, a…
What Are the Other ‘Earths’ in the Galaxy Like? Could They Ever Be a New Home?
Story at a glance… Since 2014, multiple Earth-like planets have been discovered in our galaxy. While too far to…
438-Year Old “Massive” Coral Discovered in the Great Barrier Reef in “Excellent Condition”
PICTURED: Nathan Cook, one of the members of a citizen science project that uncovered an enormous coral in the…
Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb Launches The Galileo Project to Search for Alien Technology Under Our Noses
PICTURED: The mammoth LSST Telescope at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. PC: Rubin Obs/NSF/AURA. Story at a glance… Suggesting…
As Perseverance Prepares to Take First Samples, New Theory for Identifying Life Helps Guide the Way
PICTURED: A light-colored “paver stone” like the ones seen in this mosaic will be the likely target for first…
Super Telescope Captures Images of a Plasma Jet Emitting from Black Hole at 16-Times Greater Resolution
PICTURED: Four observations of Centaurus A taken and rendered by the ESA. PC: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; optical: Rolf Olsen; infrared:…