Whales are the largest animals on the planet, but they haven’t always been giants. Fossil records show that ancient whales were much smaller than the currently living behemoths.
Will an asteroid collide with Earth this year? Nasa reveals the FIVE space rocks that will come ‘close’ to our planet. Ron Baalke tweeted about 5 asteroids expected to come within 5 lunar distances; The first will be come on July 23, and will fly 3.15 …
In 1944, German soldiers constructing a bunker in Greece uncovered a fossilized jawbone. The specimen was in poor shape, just a curve of mandible with its teeth mostly chipped away.
Astronaut Jack Fischer waves to a camera during Tuesday’s spacewalk. Credit: NASA TV/Spaceflight Now. After a bit of a struggle with a balky bolt, space station commander Peggy Whitson replaced a failed external computer during a short, hurriedly …
A remarkably complete fossil of a young child suggests that key elements of the human spinal structure were already in place in an ancient human relative 3.3 million years ago.
Over the weekend a call went out to astronomers to point their telescopes toward star KIC 8462852, which is also known as Tabby’s Star or the “Alien Megastructure” star.
WASHINGTON – Scientists poring over President Trump’s proposed 2018 federal budget say it guts funding for climate science. Under the proposal, the three federal agencies that perform the bulk of that research face dramatic cuts.
Neil Armstrong’s lunar sample bag has had a long and complicated journey over the past half-century. It started in 1969, when the off-white, purse-sized pouch flew to the moon and back with the legendary astronaut, who used it to collect the first …
This artist’s concept shows TRAPPIST-1h, one of seven Earth-size planets in the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system. NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, operating in its K2 mission, obtained data that allowed scientists to determine that the orbital period of TRAPPIST …
Research posits that Earth emerged from a completely new structure after a planetary collision, with outer layers of vaporized rock rotating in orbit around the rest of the body.
In the event of a catastrophe, the vault could resupply the seeds needed to get crops in far-flung countries going again. But the so-called “Doomsday” vault suffered a near-miss of its own, when it emerged that water from melted permafrost had breached …
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