A cast of a T. rex skeleton on display outside the UC Museum of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley. The original, a nearly complete skeleton ...
If one Tyrannosaurus rex - the school bus-sized meat-eating dinosaur that stalked the Cretaceous Period landscape - seems impressive, how about 2.5 billion of ...
One Tyrannosaurus rex seems scary enough. Now picture 2.5 billion of them. That's how many of the fierce dinosaur king probably roamed Earth over the ...
As many as 2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus rex roamed the Earth during their fascinating reign as top predators, according to a team of paleontologists from the ...
"The Boy of Gran Dolina," a young individual in the extinct Homo antecessor species found at a site in Spain, is actually female, according to new analysis of ...
SpaceX is gearing up for its third astronaut launch in under a year, after getting the green light from NASA a week ahead of next Thursday's planned flight.
SpaceX and NASA are officially "go" to proceed with launching four astronauts to the International Space Station next week, with the completion of a critical flight ...
This year, Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to launch the first private space mission into orbit with no professional astronauts. Billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, ...
Scientists have successfully grown monkey embryos containing human cells for the first time — the latest milestone in a rapidly advancing field that has drawn ...
An international team has put human cells into monkey embryos in hopes of finding new ways to produce organs for transplantation. But some ethicists still worry ...
Monkey embryos containing human cells have been made in a laboratory, a study has confirmed. The research, by a US-Chinese team, has sparked *fresh* ...
Monkey embryos containing human cells were kept alive for 20 days in an experiment carried out by a US-Chinese team. The embryos were made by injecting ...
Back in 2017, a University of Hawaii telescope discovered a strangely-shaped object we ended up calling Oumuamua. Some claimed it was an alien spaceship, ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe is now in a holding pattern after a lengthy mission that visited the space rock known as Bennu. The probe is still in the ...
Like boot prints on the Moon, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft left its mark on asteroid Bennu. New images — taken during the spacecraft's final fly-over on April 7 ...
Mars is more crowded than ever. With a successful arrival by the Perseverance rover in February, NASA alone is operating three orbiters, two rovers, and a ...
In spring 2021, NASA intends to conduct flights of the Ingenuity Helicopter on Mars, marking a new milestone in planetary exploration. This small, autonomous ...
Take the latest such machine to be sent to the Red Planet. Perseverance landed in the Jezero Crater on Mars in February, and even if two full months have ...
Using the NICER telescope on the International Space Station, researchers determined that the pulsar in the Crab Nebula releases millisecond-long pulses of ...
Colorado stargazers are in for a special treat during the early morning hours of Earth Day 2021 as the annual Lyrid meteor shower hits its peak activity level.
Fans of celestial wonders and lovers of warm weather are in for a treat this weekend with clear skies, a chance to see the Lyrid meteor showers and the year's ...
Lyrid Meteor Shower Peak: When To See Fireballs In Woodbury - Woodbury, MN - The Lyrids peak is a perfect start to Earth Day in Woodbury. Known for ...
Be prepared for crowded parks and lots of shorts, sandals and sunglasses this weekend: Seattle and surrounding inland areas might hit high temperatures of 80 ...
Have you missed star-gazing lately? We have been in a drought when it comes to meteor showers so far for 2021 but that all changes this week! The Lyrid ...
A pair of orbiting black holes millions of times the Sun's mass perform a hypnotic dance in a new NASA visualization. The movie traces how the black holes ...
NASA has released a stunning new video and images visualizing the distortion you would see if you observed two black holes, and their visible accretion disks, ...
Although it's extremely difficult to directly image the shadow of and the space around a black hole, that's not the only tool astronomers have in their kit.
NASA launched a video Thursday that shows two massive black holes dancing around each other in space and distorting themselves into curved, mesmerizing ...
A fireball that streaked across the sky on Monday was so close to Earth that the American Meteor Society received 259 reports and nine videos of its celestial ...
A meteor shot across the sky around 10 p.m. Monday in Florida. Residents along the state's Atlantic Coast from Jacksonville Beach and down as far south as ...
Video by Matthew Bowdle of Coral Springs. By Sharon Aron Baron. What was that strange blast residents in the popular app NextDoor were asking one another ...
On the night of Monday, April 12, Floridians and residents of surrounding islands witnessed a mysterious fireball that shot past Earth and lit up the sky.
Estatuas cave in northern Spain was a hive of activity 105,000 years ago. Artifacts show its Neanderthal inhabitants hafted stone tools, butchered red deer, and ...
Innovation allows researchers to extract hominin genetic material from sediments, and reveals that Neanderthals may have come close to extinction twice before ...
The field of ancient DNA has revealed important aspects of human evolutionary past, including relationships with Denisovans and Neandertals. These studies ...
Estatuas cave in northern Spain was a hive of activity 105,000 years ago. Artifacts show its Neanderthal inhabitants hafted stone tools, butchered red deer, and ...
(Inside Science) -- Roughly 100000 years ago, a community of Neanderthals settled into a region of what we know as northern Spain, calling it home for many ...
Welcome to Edition 3.41 of the Rocket Report! As always there is plenty of news in the world of launch, and this week we have several stories about heavy lift ...
New data released by a team of hundreds of international scientists offers a more comprehensive understanding of the supermassive black hole at the heart of ...
Telescopes from across the globe have teamed up to take unprecedented images of supermassive black hole M87* as it blasts matter into space at 99 percent ...
Astronaut Mike Hopkins answered questions from local grade schoolers, engineering students, current football players and alumni for about 25 minutes, before ...
Scientists have uncovered more details about perhaps the most famous repeating fast radio burst, a mysterious phenomenon astronomers cannot yet explain.
The mystery of fast radio bursts may be closer to being solved. Astronomers studying a repeating signal from a nearby galaxy have detected radiation at the ...
New clues discovered in quest to unravel astrophysical mystery Since fast radio bursts (FRBs) were first discovered over a decade ago, scientists have puzzled ...
SpaceX is set to send a payload to the moon in 2023, using its larger (and infrequently used) Falcon Heavy launch vehicle. The mission will fly a lander built by ...
Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic announced Tuesday it is partnering with SpaceX for yet another groundbreaking moon mission. In 2023, Astrobotic's Griffin lunar ...
SpaceX aims to put a payload on the moon in 2023 with its larger, less active Falcon Heavy rocket. The mission will place a lander constructed by the space ...
NASA is inviting a limited number of media to capture imagery of NASA's Pegasus Barge and the offload and transport of the Space Launch System's (SLS) ...
NASA's Human Exploration Rover Challenge will host a virtual awards ceremony for its competing teams Friday, April 16, at 9 a.m. CDT. Media wishing to attend ...
Most ant species are born into royalty. But for Indian jumping ants, female workers can fight for the crown. The catch? The winner becomes queen, but its brain ...
Indian jumping ants can shrink their brains by 20 per cent and then expand them back again to allow energy to be temporarily diverted towards egg production, ...
The Indian jumping ant, Harpegnathos saltator, has many talents. This inch-long arthropod, found in flood plains across India, has a four-inch vertical leap and ...
New Horizons is a long, long, long way from home. Fifteen years after launching from Earth and six years after becoming the first probe to fly by Pluto, NASA's ...
Fifteen years after launching and six years after becoming the first probe to fly by Pluto, NASA's New Horizons is reaching 50 AU, a marker that has been passed ...
AUSTIN, Texas — While scrolling on your neighborhood Nextdoor app or social media, you're probably seeing more and more pictures of snakes in unwanted ...
LAKE FOREST, IL — One thing we've all learned in Lake Forest and Lake Bluff over the last year is the enjoyment of simple pleasures like nights spent under a ...
Get ready for the second major meteor shower of 2021. The Lyrids have had some amazing outbursts in the past. The time to start searching the skies is now.
One of my bucket list items is to try astronaut food. Not that freeze-dried astronaut ice cream stuff (which I still absolutely love), but actual food that is designed for ...
NASA's Gateway lunar outpost will address one of the biggest concerns for space travel beyond Earth's orbit by measuring radiation levels within the spacecraft ...
After 185 days in space, Bay Area astronaut Kate Rubins will hurtle back to Earth on a Russian spacecraft Friday having traveled more than 78 million miles and ...
When I imagine what space food is like it's usually a vacuum-packed porridge that you mix with water, with all the nutrients that the human body may need but ...
Have physicists at Fermilab found evidence for a new force? In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast Sam Grant of University College London ...
A robotic submarine has returned from the dark underbelly of one of Antarctica's largest glaciers with chilling news — it could be melting faster than we ...
If you thought the first image of a black hole in distant galaxy M87 was something special two years ago, a newly-released video pulling together the work of 19.
Physicists have long been unable to crack the mystery of what happened in the moments when a vanishingly small seed ballooned into the universe. Now, one ...
Coral reefs cover less than one percent of the ocean floor yet are home to more than a quarter of all marine life. The biodiverse habitats have declined by half as ...
Image via Getty/Warpaintcobra. For years paleontologists have wondered, as we all have, how gigantic flying azhdarchid pterosaurs could have been able to ...
During the dinosaur age, azhdarchid pterosaurs — soaring reptiles that could grow as large as airplanes — supported their absurdly long necks and large ...
Azhdarchid pterosaurs, the giant reptiles that flew in the skies nearly 65 million years ago, had necks longer than that of a giraffe (on average a giraffe's neck is ...
WASHINGTON - Azhdarchid pterosaurs were massive flying reptiles that soared across the skies in the age of the dinosaurs, using their long bills to pick out ...
Scientists have discovered yet another layer deep inside the core of the Earth, a new study suggests. "Traditionally we've been taught the Earth has four main ...
Two international teams of astronomers (with significant Dutch involvement) have published two scientific papers with new information about the famous fast ...
Mathematicians and engineers at the University of Utah have teamed up to show how ultrasound waves can organize carbon particles in water into a sort of ...
New research methods may lead to earlier predictions of volcanic eruptions. Although there are telltale signs that a volcano is likely to erupt in the near future ...
While scientists have long been able to predict the eruptions of volcanoes days in advance as they begin to smoke and rumble, researchers at NASA's Jet ...
Russia is revisiting its Soviet space heritage for a new series of missions that will take the nation back to the moon with five spacecraft to launch beginning this ...
There are five systems more than trillions of miles away from Earth with multiple suns that might be hospitable for life. If multiple suns brings to mind Luke ...
A woman collecting shellfish was astonished to discover the largest dinosaur footprint ever found on the Yorkshire coast—likely belonging to a 'Jurassic giant' ...
A DINOSAUR footprint discovered on the Yorkshire coast has been described as a "real Jurassic giant."Scientists say the discovery, the largest ever in.
For many years, it has been widely believed that the Earth has four layers: the crust, the mantle, the outer core, and the inner core. A group of scientists now ...
If Planet Nine is out there, a large, mysterious planet lurking at the dark edges of the Solar System, it may not be where we thought it might be. According to ...
Scientists at a leading global grains research institute expect to sharply ramp up new wheat varieties enriched with zinc that can boost the essential mineral for ...
In the southern hemisphere, in the constellation Canis Major, lies a very young, very massive red hypergiant star called VY Canis Majoris (VY CMa). A pulsating ...
'I didn't think the views could get any better, then my crewmate [Soichi Noguchi] took this night timelapse from Resilience and I was blown away,' Hopkins said.
Sinabung (Sumatra, Indonesia): Explosive activity continues. Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) Darwin warned about a volcanic ash plume that rose up to ...
