Sylvie Monseret-Gougeon co-discovered the Cabriere organisms containing fossils dating back 470 million years – SWNS Two amateur paleontologists have discovered a site of “global importance” in France containing nearly 400 fossils dating back 470...
Although supermassive black holes are common throughout the universe, we don’t have many direct images of them. The problem is that although they can have masses of millions or billions of stars, even the...
This article has been reviewed in accordance with Science Fact check Peer-reviewed publication A reputable news agency Proofreading Yes! This image provided by NASA on February 13, 2010, shows Saturn’s moon Mimas and the...
Space weather explained: What is a solar flare? The largest explosions in the solar system, a solar flare is an explosion of energy that occurs on the surface of the sun, often appearing as...
Life reconstruction of Harajicadectes zhumini, a 40-cm-long lobed-finned fish not closely related to the fish that gave rise to the earliest limbed tetrapods. Credit: Brian Chu, Flinders University Once flowing through the now dry...
NASA scientists have just begun analyzing fragments brought back from the asteroid Bennu, and early evidence suggests that the material they contain originated from an ancient ocean world. This assumption is based on the...
What about galaxies and dark matter? Most, if not all, galaxies are surrounded by halos of this mysterious, unknown but ubiquitous substance. It also played a role in galaxy formation. The nature of this...
NASA/JPL For more than a decade, NASA’s Near-Earth Object Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission has been searching the skies for near-Earth objects. Using its infrared vision, the spacecraft, which is in orbit above Earth’s...
66 million years ago, the last dinosaurs disappeared from Earth. We’re still trying to understand why. New fossils of abelisaurs – distant relatives of the tyrannosaurid dinosaurs – from North Africa suggest that African...
Scientist Earl Ellis has compiled interdisciplinary research to illustrate how human cultural practices have historically enabled the transformation of ecosystems, progressing from the use of fire to the development of global supply chains. By...