A long-extinct lineage of insect, known fondly as the 'hell ant', has been discovered frozen in 99-million-year-old amber, with its scythe-like jaw still pinning its ...
Around 99 million years ago, a juvenile cockroach met a hellish fate. It was snapped up by the jaws of a Cretaceous hell ant, a fierce predator with long, curving ...
Millions of years ago, a prehistoric hell ant with a protruding horn caught a relative of the cockroach in its scythe-like jaw, and didn't let go, as described in a ...
A hell ant that lived 99 million years ago has been discovered trapped in a piece of amber, in the process of killing a prehistoric extinct cockroach relative.
A Triassic-aged sea monster with "a very long broomstick for a neck," sharp curved teeth and a crocodile-like snout wasn't a prima donna; rather, this reptile ...
Palaeontologists have long known that the bizarre-looking reptile species had a remarkably long neck, which at 10 feet long was three times the length of its ...
A baffling extinct animal was actually a marine reptile that may have used its extremely long neck to ambush prey. Fossils of Tanystropheus were identified over ...
Nostrils located on the top of the snout and curved teeth, perfectly adapted for catching slippery prey: The skull of Tanystropheus has several clear adaptations ...
Scientists have virtually reconstructed the skull of Tanystropheus, an iconic reptile from the Triassic period with a long disputed past, shedding new light on the ...
NASA's first asteroid sampling spacecraft is making final preparations to grab a sample from asteroid Bennu's surface. Next week, the OSIRIS-REx mission will ...
Two American astronauts have splashed down, as the first commercial crewed mission to the International Space Station returned to Earth. The SpaceX Dragon ...
Recreational boaters got up close and personal to the SpaceX capsule carrying two US astronauts after it landed in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday — catching NASA ...
NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken described in detail what it felt like and sounded like when SpaceX's spacecraft came roaring back down to ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Two NASA astronauts returned to Earth on Sunday in a dramatic, retro-style splashdown, their capsule parachuting into the ...
A new analysis of ancient genomes suggests that different branches of the human family tree interbred multiple times, and that some humans carry DNA from an ...
Genetic evidence shows that that humans still have DNA from a "super archaic" ancestor, and scientists have an early idea of who that ancestor could be.
New algorithm suggests that early humans and related species interbred early and often. A new analysis of ancient genomes suggests that different branches of ...
A new analysis of ancient genomes suggests that different branches of the human family tree interbred multiple times, and that some humans carry DNA from an ...
The NASA rover touched down eight years ago, on August 5, 2012, and will soon be joined by a second rover, Perseverance. NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has ...
When NASA's powerful Perseverance rover lifted off into space on July 30, a satellite and a robotic telescope caught unique views of the mission on its way to ...
Less than a day after SpaceX successfully hopped a full-scale Starship prototype for the first time, the company has begun stacking the next rocket and Elon ...
New York (CNN Business) SpaceX launched an experimental rocket prototype on a "hop test" this week during which the giant tank-like vehicle — reminiscent of ...
SpaceX on Tuesday successfully completed a flight of less than a minute of the largest prototype ever tested of the future rocket Starship, which the company ...
Humanity's goal of reaching Mars got a boost with the successful test hop of the SpaceX Starship SN5, which soared to 500 feet Tuesday in Boca Chica, Texas.
Our romantic view of space exploration goes a bit like this: you climb into a sleek, curved, silvery spacecraft which then takes off with a soft woosh from the pad at ...
SpaceX is getting ready for a third try at launching its tenth Starlink mission, after two prior attempts were scrubbed, first in June and then again in July.
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For the fourth time, SpaceX is about to (attempt to) launch 57 Starlink satellites and two Earth-imaging satellites, hopefully ending more than six weeks of delays.
SpaceX is set to try again for their ninth launch of operational Starlink satellites, along with two satellites for BlackSky's Earth observation constellation, on Friday, ...
Taking advantage of a total lunar eclipse, Hubble used the Moon as a mirror to study sunlight that had passed through Earth's atmosphere. As a result, Hubble ...
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, led by astrophysicist Allison Youngblood, used the Hubble Space Telescope to view Earth by pointing it at ...
Bob Behnken, KE5GGX, was one of two NASA astronauts who made spaceflight history over the weekend. Behnken and Doug Hurley were the first astronauts ...
SpaceX's first-ever passenger flight to the International Space Station (ISS) ended successfully on August 2, 2020, when Crew Dragon Endeavour, splashed into ...
NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley describe in vivid detail what it's like to land on Earth inside SpaceX's Crew Dragon, claiming it didn't sound like ...
U.S. astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley recounted on Tuesday the loud, jarring ride they experienced through Earth's atmosphere before a safe landing ...
The first astronauts to ride the SpaceX Crew Dragon into space returned to Earth on Sunday, after a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola. This.
By formulating positively charged fluorescent dyes into a new class of materials called small-molecule ionic isolation lattices (SMILES), a compound's brilliant ...
Fluorescence is typically associated with gases or liquids, but a team of chemists has conjured a new formula that gives solid materials that characteristic ...
The world has a new brightest fluorescent material, and it's the first of its kind. Rather than trying to improve fluorescent molecules, a team of chemists have ...
Behold: The mesmerizing glow of the brightest fluorescent material ever made. These colorful bundles of light may look like visions from a dream of the 1980s, ...
A recent study details a newly discovered class of materials called SMILES (small-molecule ionic isolation lattices. These could benefit future solar technology.
Vast areas of the Martian night sky pulse in ultraviolet light, according to images from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. The results are being used to illuminate ...
Vast areas of the Martian night sky pulse in ultraviolet light, according to images from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. The results are being used to illuminate ...
Vast areas of the Martian night sky pulse in ultraviolet light, according to images from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. The results are being used to illuminate ...
The latest successful rocket test by SpaceX could mean we'll see humans on Mars in the next decade, funded by private entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk and ...
An international team of solar physicists, including academics from Northumbria University, in Newcastle upon Tyne, has recently measured the global magnetic ...
Since it launched in 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory has helped scientists understand how the Sun's magnetic field is generated and structured, and what ...
It turns out cancer has been around since even before humans walked the earth. Scientists recently discovered that a dinosaur's malformed leg was afflicted with ...
Dinosaurs loom in the imagination as forces of nature, but a new study that identifies the first known case of cancer in the creatures shows they suffered from the ...
OTTAWA - Dinosaurs loom in the imagination as forces of nature, but a new study that identifies the first known case of cancer in the creatures shows they ...
Researchers in Canada have just announced the identification of a malignant tumor on a dinosaur fossil, marking the first time cancer has ever been detected in ...
University of Central Florida researchers have developed a new type of laser beam that doesn't follow long-held principles about how light refracts and travels.
Scripps Research chemists Hans Renata, Ph.D., and Alexander Adibekian, Ph.D., have discovered a way to efficiently create a synthetic version of a valuable ...
... . . Ever since NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft flew past Jupiter in March, 1979, scientists have wondered about the origin of Jupiter's lightning, which had been ...
New Juno results suggest that the violent thunderstorms taking place in Jupiter's atmosphere may form ammonia-rich hail, or 'mushballs,' that play a key role in ...
As the Perseverance rover heads to Mars to look for signs of ancient life, a new study suggests the Red Planet could have been "covered in ice sheets" and not a ...
NASA's car-size Curiosity rover celebrates eight years on the Red Planet today (Aug. 5), less than a week after the Perseverance rover took flight toward Mars.
The very calcium that makes up our teeth and bones originated from the final moments of dying stars. It's true; we are made of stardust. (Gives a whole new ...
Calcium in our bones and teeth came from stars exploding in supernovas and scattering this mineral across the universe in massive quantities, according to a ...
Rare stellar explosions, called 'calcium-rich supernovae,' produced half of the universe's calcium and what is found in our teeth and bones, as it can create ...
Calcium-rich supernova examined with X-rays for first time. Half of all the calcium in the universe — including the very calcium in our teeth and bones — was ...
There's a reason why blue fruits are so rare: the pigment compounds that make fruits blue are relatively uncommon in nature. But the metallic blue fruits of ...
With their dazzling metallic hue, the blue fruits of the laurustinus shrub (Viburnum tinus), a flowering plant popular in gardens across Europe, are a sight to ...
A new 'healthier blue food colouring' could be possible in the future thanks to a metallic fruit that uses fat and reflection to generate a nutritious blue colour.
Razors eventually become dull after shaving even though the blade is about 50 times harder than the hair. Whereas edge rounding and brittle cracking of a ...
The collapse of viscous bubbles is of practical interest to geophysics, glass manufacturing, and food processing. Previous studies have suggested that gravity or ...
An unexpected form of electrical discharge, 'shallow lightning' originates from Jovian clouds containing an ammonia-water solution, according to a new analysis ...
NASA's Juno orbiter has observed lightning rolling across the tops of the gas giant Jupiter's cloud tops. Massive bolts of lightning have previously been detected ...
The glowing remains of a star, blowing off its outer layers at the end of its life, is officially called planetary nebula NGC 2392. But as a nickname, it has been ...
Over the past few years, there has been a growing movement to fight back against some of the everyday racism that exists in America. The Washington Redskins ...
An updated model suggests the shape of the Sun's bubble of influence, the heliosphere (seen in yellow), may be a deflated croissant shape, rather than the ...
There was a consensus that the heliosphere shape is comet-like. New research led by Boston University and Harvard University provides an alternative shape ...
Nasa has revealed the strange shape of our solar system: a deflated croissant. The new findings came after researchers used data from a variety of Nasa ...
Lava tubes under the surface of the Moon and Mars are so large they could host entire planetary bases for future space exploration, planetary scientists claim.
Vast lava tubes beneath the surface of Mars and the Moon could be large enough to host bases for visiting astronauts, scientists have said. New research ...
The tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus)—the only living member of the reptilian order Rhynchocephalia (Sphenodontia), once widespread across Gondwana—is an ...
Scientists from the University of Adelaide and South Australian Museum have collaborated with Otago University, New Zealand and a global team to sequence ...
A tuatara may look like your average lizard, but it's not. The reptiles are the last survivors of an ancient group of reptiles that flourished when dinosaurs roamed ...
It may seem obvious, but new University of Otago research proves that the tuatara's ancestry is closely linked to lizards and snakes. Otago scientists have formed ...
The genome sequence of an unusual reptile called the tuatara sheds light on the species' evolution and on conservation strategies. The work is a model of ...
A planetary-scale cloud discontinuity has been periodically lashing the depths of the thick blanket of clouds on Venus for at least 35 years, says a study with the ...
Deep in the thick, poisonous clouds wrapped around Venus, the atmosphere is behaving very oddly. A giant, previously unknown planet-scale wall of cloud ...
Astronomers have discovered that a gigantic wall of poisonous clouds is sweeping across the surface of Venus every few days — and has been doing so for ...
A GIGANTIC wave of toxic gas has been spotted surging across Venus in an event never seen before in the Solar System. The planet-wide cloud is travelling at ...
Catalysts speed up chemical reactions and form the backbone of many industrial processes. For example, they are essential in transforming heavy oil into ...
Only two manmade objects have traveled beyond the far edges of the solar system: NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Beyond the heliosphere, the bubble of ...
Scientists have developed a new prediction of the shape of the bubble surrounding our solar system using a model developed with data from NASA missions.
Scientists have developed a new prediction of the shape of the bubble surrounding our solar system using a model developed with data from NASA missions.
Scientists have developed a new prediction of the shape of the bubble surrounding our solar system using a model developed with data from NASA missions.
For the first time, lab-grown mountainous star corals are ready to spawn in the wild and make baby corals on a Florida Keys reef as part of a Mote Marine ...
We are getting a closer look at a scientific breakthrough at Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium in Sarasota when it comes to restoring coral reefs. Coral reefs ...
An exoplanet the size of Saturn orbiting a small faint star 35 light years away has been discovered after a radio telescope spotted a wobble in the stars motion.
... . . “In the deepest sense, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves,” said Carl Sagan. Although as yet unfulfilled, the quest continues ...
Astronomers using NSF's Very Long Baseline Array, a continentwide system of 10 radio telescope antennas located between Hawaii and Puerto Rico, have ...
The hunt for exoplanets in our galaxy is a deeply important endeavour. The more exoplanets we find, the better we can understand our own Solar System - and ...
According to new research, half the calcium in our universe came from “calcium-rich supernova.” That means the stuff our teeth and bones is made from is, ...
Zebrafish are a common aquarium species, of value to hobbyists and scientists alike. Researchers have now engineered an unusual change in them that has ...
Today, the entire globe is broken up into tectonic plates that are shifting past each other, causing the continents to drift slowly but steadily. But this has not always ...
The remains of "monumental temples" dating to the Iron Age and medieval buildings may be hidden underground at Navan Fort, an archaeological site in ...
Though COVID-19 has actually had some positive short-term effects for the environment, personal protective equipment (PPE), which is currently being used ...
According to a study published in the journal Biofuels, billions of items of disposable Personal Protective Equipment can be converted from its plastic state into ...
The research from the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) in Uttarakhand shows how billions of items of disposable PPE can be converted ..
Indian scientists have proposed a method for turning PPE waste into biofuel. Here's how that works. Personal protective equipment (PPE) has emerged as a ...
A vaccine for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is needed to control the global coronavirus infectious disease (COVID-19) public ...
Space.com sat down with author Mary Robinette Kowal to talk about her new book, "The Relentless Moon," which imagines the tricky politics on Earth of space ...
An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.” – Aldous Huxley It has been 50 years since the United States claims to have successfully landed ...
An excerpt from Mary Robinette Kowal's new novel, 'The Relentless Moon,' introduces astronaut Nicole Wargin and a concerning realization about the lunar ...
A study led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), making comparison between the discs of several pairs of spiral galaxies, active and ...
Our ability to efficiently detect space debris has taken an important leap forward, thanks to a new technique in which lasers can spot these potentially dangerous ...
Space junk isn't going away anytime soon—and neither are the problems it causes. We're poised to see more satellite launches with every passing year, which ...
Lasers are our go-to tool to track space debris above the Earth and help companies and nations alike avoid any unwanted contact in orbit. However, these ...
Using data from NASA's InSight Lander on Mars, Rice University seismologists have made the first direct measurements of three subsurface boundaries from the ...
Recent human activity, including agriculture, has had a greater impact on North America's plants and animals than even the glaciers that retreated more than ...
Scientists have discovered that microbial cells buried deep in under-the-seafloor sediment use 50 quintillion times less energy than humans do, a requirement ...
An international team of researchers led by Queen Mary University of London have discovered that microorganisms buried in sediment beneath the seafloor can ...
