The fossil was discovered in 2014 at the La Buitrera fossil area, and researchers spent about a decade preparing the fragile bones for study. According to the University of Minnesota’s release, the work culminated in a paper published in Nature on February 25, 2026, led by Peter Makovicky and co-led with Sebastián Apesteguía. Alnashetri matters
Jupiter may be the king of planets in our Solar System, but in other star systems across the galaxy, even larger planets orbit billions of miles from their stars – in places where traditional formation theories struggle to explain them. In a new study, researchers examine three massive gas giants about 130 light-years away, using
Female caribou may be lugging around antlers for a reason that has less to do with defense and more to do with their diets. A new study of more than 1,500 shed antlers taken from calving grounds in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge finds that the primary chewers of those old bones aren’t rodents,
This article was originally published at Eos. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Earth froze over 717 million years ago. Ice crept down from the poles to the equator, and the dark subglacial seas suffocated without sunlight to power photosynthesis. Earth became an unrecognizable, alien world—a “snowball Earth,” where
One of the largest known stars in the cosmos is poised for catastrophe. After witnessing the massive object undergo a dramatic transformation, a team of astronomers say the star is on the verge of exploding in a powerful supernova, they report in a new study published in the journal Nature Astronomy. Or, they speculate, it
Alpha Flight 7 “Stairway To Seven” – YouTube Watch On Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket will return to flight today (March 1) after a 10-month-long grounding, and you can watch the action live. Alpha is scheduled to launch from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base today during a two-hour window that opens at 7:50 p.m. EST (4:50
For years, scientists have been piecing together the puzzle of Earth’s first animals. How did simple organisms evolve into the diverse life we see today? A new study from MIT, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offers a fresh perspective. It reveals chemical evidence that suggests some of the earliest animals on
Restricting a strange class of particles known as anyons to one dimension could force them into adopting one of two new forms, models suggest, hinting at new fundamental interactions in particle physics. In a three-dimensional space, particles fall into two groups. There are fermions, which typically describe particles that don’t overlap with one another, such
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In 1774, British physician-scientist Charles Blagden received an unusual invitation from a fellow physician: to spend time in a small room that was hotter, he wrote, “than it was formerly thought any living creature could bear.” Many people may have been appalled by this offer, but Blagden was delighted by the opportunity for self-experimentation. He