When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were buried. While the different strata of sedimentary rock represent periods of geologic history frozen in time, accurately dating them or the fossils trapped within them has frequently proven to be frustrating. Fossilized
If you’re interested in extraterrestrial life, these past few years have given an embarrassment of places to look, even in our own solar system. Mars has been an obvious choice since before the Space Age; in the orbit of Jupiter, Europa’s oceans have been of interest since Voyager’s day; the geysers of Enceladus give Saturn
SpaceX launched two more batches of Starlink satellites on Saturday (Feb. 21), and in the process set a new rocket reuse record. First up at 4:04 a.m. EST (0904 GMT or 1:04 a.m. PST local time), a Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images When you think of saving our oceans, what comes to mind? Maybe you think about reef restoration techniques like coral transplantation, or making small consumption changes like switching from plastic straws. If you have money to dream big, perhaps you might ponder creating a big robot
We’ve all heard stories of parents who can be a little too controlling. But some parents take the cake. A man recently shared a story online about his sister, who completely went berserk when he tried to help her kids. He said his sister, all of a sudden, decided to put her kids on a
Source: Discover Magazine A fossilised dinosaur egg was uncovered in South America, and scientists are calling it a remarkable discovery. The egg is estimated to be around 70 million years old and is astonishingly well-preserved. The find was made by the Laboratory of Comparative Anatomy and Evolution of Vertebrates at the Argentine Museum of Natural
For those who enjoy viewing the night sky, a unique opportunity is just around the corner late this month. Six planets in the solar system are going to align in the western sky just after sunset. Those planets will include Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The latter two planets, Uranus and Neptune, will
The arrival of 3I/ATLAS in our solar system spawned multiple proposals for a rendezvous mission to study it up close. As the third interstellar object (ISO) ever detected, the wealth of information direct studies could provide would be groundbreaking in many respects. However, the mission architecture for intercepting an interstellar comet poses numerous significant challenges
A newly discovered fossil marine lizard withrazor-sharp teeth is offering scientists a rare glimpse into life at the very end of the dinosaur age. Called Khinjaria acuta, this fierce predator roamed the waters off what is now Morocco about 66 million years ago, and its remains reveal an ocean packed with massive hunters, nothing like
Immediately after the Big Bang boomed, the Universe was a trillion-degree ‘soup‘ of unimaginably dense plasma. In a breakthrough experiment, researchers have found the first evidence that this exotic primordial goo did actually slosh and swirl like soup. In slightly more scientific terms, this gooey soup is called quark-gluon plasma, or QGP. It was the