A new study has offered what it says is the first physical evidence showing dinosaurs from the Triassic period regularly endured freezing conditions, allowing them to...
NASA’s first spacecraft designed to study a metallic asteroid won’t be launching this year as planned, according to an announcement made by the agency on Friday....
Black holes, by their nature, are invisible unless part of a stellar binary or surrounded by an accretion disk. Most stellar-sized black holes aren’t, but astronomers...
New research transforms our understanding of the circumstances and timing of the domestication of chickens, their spread across Asia into the west, and reveals the changing...
WASHINGTON – Astronomers have peered into a teeming stellar nursery in the Tarantula Nebula – a colossal cloud of gas and dust next door to our...
Astronomers believe they have discovered the fastest-growing black hole of the past nine billion years – and it has the estimated mass of three billion suns....
Nasa will launch a trio of rockets from the Northern Territory beginning in late June, the first mission to blast off from a commercial facility outside...
Solar power could provide all the needed energy for an extended mission to Mars and is more efficient than nuclear energy, according to a new study....
Egyptian officials announced on Monday that archaeologists have discovered roughly hundreds of artifacts at the Saqqara necropolis that date back about 2,500 years. Officials said that...
NASA’s Earth Observatory has released satellite images of an undersea volcano erupting. The image, taken on May 14 by the Operational Land Imager 2 on the...
A new study has identified more than 500 “lost” animal species not yet considered extinct but that have remained unseen by anyone for more than 50...
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