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A super-telescope made the first direct observation of an exoplanet using optical interferometry. This method revealed a complex exoplanetary atmosphere with clouds of iron and silicates swirling in a planet-wide storm. The technique presents unique ...

The January 16th “Green Run” test of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) was intended to be the final milestone before the super heavy-lift booster would be moved to Cape Canaveral ahead of its inaugural Artemis I mission in November 2021. The full ...

“These are easily the most charismatic and strange of all flowering plants,” said Charles Davis, a professor of organismic and evolutionary biology at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and curator of vascular plants in the Harvard University Herbaria. “They're just ...

More weird news from outer space this week. NASA announced that their Juno probe detected FM radio signals coming from one of Jupiter's moons. Scientists are ecstatic about the discovery while bureaucrats at the Federal Communications Commission ...

It's just the second time any researchers have located a cloudless exoplanet, and they're believed to be rare as a whole — less than 7 percent of exoplanets. Scientists first detected WASP-62b in ...

The United Nations is currently developing a new post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, for the world to 'live in harmony with nature' by 2050. This will be negotiated in Kunming, China, later this year.

The largest land animal alive today is the African bush elephant, weighing in at around 20,000 pounds. As big as elephants are, they've got nothing on some extinct megafauna. Scientists excavating a new species of dinosaur in Argentina have reported that ...

| Jan. 25, 2021, 6:00 a.m.. “OK, so ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking, yeah?

And the process could explain at least some flares of plasma, a white-hot form of charged gas, that scientists have already detected near these massive disruptions in time and space. a new study published Jan. 13 in the journal Physical Review D proposes.

There are some pretty weird goings on up there and a Nasa mission that aims to learn more about them has reported that blue jets - bolts of lightning that shoots upwards from thunderstorm clouds - have been spotted from the International Space Station (ISS).

They have been revealed, in 3D scans, to belong to a baby tyrannosaur - cousin of the T-Rex dinosaur. They are the first-known fossils of tyrannosaur embryos.

In the early nineteenth century, members of the Sitka Tlingit people built a trapezoid-shaped wooden fortress called Shís'gi Noow, or 'Sapling Fort', on a peninsula in modern Sitka, Alaska.

Titan, Saturn's biggest moon, probably tugged the ringed planet off-kilter one billion years ago. Saturn is tilted with respect to its orbit around the Sun, by a little bit more than Earth is. Planetary scientists had thought that Saturn acquired its tilt more than 4 ...

Bengaluru: Astronomers using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have observed a six-star system called TIC 168789840, also known as TYC 7037-89-1, that is around 2,000 light years away from the earth. The astronomers have also ...

After studying the first-known fossils of tyrannosaur embryos, unearthed in Canada and the United States, researchers have discovered more about the early development of the colossal animals, which lived 70 million years ago and could grow to 40 feet in ...

Life reconstruction of Parasaurolophus group being confronted by a tyrannosaurid in the subtropical forests of New Mexico 75 million years ago. Credit: Copyright Andrey Atuchin, Denver Museum of Nature & Science. The first new skull discovered in nearly a ...

Live. The rise of Elon Musk and SpaceX. Watch Now. Elon Musk's SpaceX on Sunday launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a record 143 spacecraft in its premier run of the SmallSat Ridehsare Program.

You should have seen my legs the night I finished the Appalachian Trail. Standing naked in front of a half-length mirror in a Maine hotel room so dingy and dated it should have come with complementary mothballs, I marveled at what I had become over the ...

This Hubble image shows ESO 455-10, a planetary nebula located in the constellation of Scorpius. The color image is composed of near-infrared and optical observations from Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). Four filters were used to sample various ...

The heavens have inspired mankind ever since the ancient Egyptians worshipped Ra, god of the sun, and the Ancient Greeks believed the constellations were placed there by the gods. Now Van Cleef & Arpels turns to the skies for its latest high jewellery ...