Meteorite provides record of asteroids ‘spitting out’
The main mass of the Aguas Jarcas meteorite at the Fields Museum. credit: John Weinstein, Field Museum In 2019, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sent back images […]
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Meteorite provides record of asteroids ‘spitting out’
The main mass of the Aguas Jarcas meteorite at the Fields Museum. credit: John Weinstein, Field Museum In 2019, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sent back images […]
Brightest stars in the night sky may distinguish Neptune-sized planets from their rocky cores
Artist’s concept of a Neptune-sized planet, at left, around a blue, A-type star. UC Berkeley astronomers have discovered a hard-to-find gas around one of these […]
When the fireflies wait for a night that never comes
As dusk falls, the shadow deepens at the edge of the forest, a small lighthouse illuminating the darkness. Soon, the twilight is filled with drifting […]
Matter becomes remarkably simple and universal under extreme conditions of extremely high temperature and pressure
credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Scientists at Queen Mary University of London have made two discoveries about the behavior of “supercritical matter” – the critical point […]
Huge new deep-sea isopod discovered in Gulf of Mexico – 2,500% larger than common woodlice
Image of Bathynomus yucatenensis. credit: Dr. Ming-Chih Huang, Journal of Natural History A giant, ‘creamy yellow’ relative of the woodlouse was found off the Yucatan […]
Dark energy may come from vast cosmic vacancies
New research suggests that the vast deserts of nearly absolute zero that make up most of the universe may be causing the expansion of the […]
Not just short arms: T. rex also had large small eyes to accommodate its large bite
the mighty jaws Tyrannosaurus Rex Broken together with such force that they would break the bones of dinosaur prey. But to get such a powerful […]
Matter becomes remarkably simple and universal under extreme conditions of extremely high temperature and pressure
credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Scientists at Queen Mary University of London have made two discoveries about the behavior of “supercritical matter” – the critical point […]
James Webb Space Telescope caught ‘cheater’ galaxies red-handed
Dusty, star-forming galaxies that existed a billion years after the Big Bang may turn out to be record-breaking galaxies discovered by NASA’s new space telescope […]