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The 550-million-year-old Quaestio simpsonorum is the first fossil to show a definitive left-right asymmetry, an important sign of evolutionary development…
There may be a new bright comet in the night sky, but this weekend Earth also has a new moon.…
There’s an old trope about how only certain human-made objects, like the Great Wall of China, can be seen from…
NASA’s Mars rovers have seen some spectacular sights on the red planet, including rocks that resemble sea creatures and Star…
A new published study, using a combination of old models, new geophysical data and improved simulation software, reconstructs how plate…
Despite endless debate on how and why earth has life like our own, we need to remember that it’s been…
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, used by NASA in June to launch two astronauts to the International Space Station, has returned to…
Look at any image of Jupiter and one feature is hard to ignore—its “Great Red Spot,” a massive storm raging…
The melting of Earth’s ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica is causing the oceans to swell near the equator, altering…
Sunspot AR3664, which was last seen blasting powerful solar explosions our direction that generated historic and widespread aurora, has rotated…