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Scientists have discovered what could be the oldest animal footprint fossils ever found. The tracks were found in southern China’s Yangtze Gorges and date back up to 551 million years ago. This is potentially 10 million years before the Cambrian Explosion, which is when creatures capable of leaving tracks like this were thought to have […]

Most U.S. recycled paper, plastic, and cardboard is exported to China for processing. Now however, China is restricting how much of these waste products they will accept from the U.S., creating a major problem the nations recyclables. China is also demanding the materials they do accept be more pure and clean, which makes it easier […]

NASA may soon work to create an artificial refueling station to be placed in orbit around the moon, which can be used as a relay point for deep space exploration and to develop technologies for life support on Mars. The plan was described by the newly appointed NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine in an interview on […]

It might be early summer in Mars, but patches of snow can be seen on its vast sand dunes in a stunning image captured by NASA. “The North Pole of Mars is surrounded by a vast sea of sand dunes,” wrote NASA in a statement accompanying the release of the image on May 29. “In […]

The epic voyage of the Cassini spaceship might have ended nine months ago, but stunning images of its trek to Saturn are still being processed by NASA. A stunning composite image of Saturn’s icy moon Tethys with the iconic Odysseus crater was released by NASA on June 4. “An enormous impact created the crater, which […]

PARIS—The 30 ft skeleton of a unidentified type of dinosaur, believed to be that of a new species, fetched more than $2.3 million at an auction staged on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Monday, June 5. The fossil, dug up in the western United States in 2013, is known only […]

According to a report by the Washington Post, NASA has confirmed that Jim Bridenstine has begun speaking with companies about the privatizing the International Space Station and how best to transform low-Earth orbit into a place of business. Gizmodo reports that Bridenstine said in a recent interview, “We’re in a position now where there are […]

NASA on Sunday tweeted a remarkable image of a galaxy cluster about 7.5 billion light-years from Earth. A green cosmic arc was found in the image. According to NASA, a galaxy is so massive that it can warp the fabric of space-time. “The mass contained within a galaxy is so immense that it can actually warp […]

Senior museum scientist, Dr. Christina Robins, and student lab techs at UC Berkeley have been carving out one of the biggest fossil finds in the Bay Area. Around 2,000 fossils have been discovered at the Calaveras Dam Replacement Project by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. The dam sits next to the active Calaveras fault […]

The Advanced Plant Habitat Base, initially housed and prepared at the Kennedy Space Station Processing Facility, was part of the Cygnus spacecraft’s cargo last month. The Cygnus took off from Wallops Island Virginia on May 20. The Advanced Plant Habitat Base contains several variety of seeds, and is fully automated, requiring minimal supervision from astronauts […]

CT scans have revealed the inner contents of an Egyptian mummy to be that of a stillborn human baby, not as the mummified hawk it was once believed to be. Bioarchaeologist Andrew Nelson, from Canada’s Western University, along with the UK’s Maidstone Museum and Nikon Metrology UK, conducted ‘micro-CT’ scans on the mummy—a technique that is […]

WASHINGTON—Scientists have detected another exotic feature on one of the solar system’s most wondrous worlds, a large field of dunes on the surface of the distant, frigid dwarf planet Pluto apparently composed of wind-swept, sand-sized grains of frozen methane. The dunes, spotted on images taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft during its 2015 flyby, sit […]

People often assume animals like cats have highly-tuned senses far beyond our own, with their ability to see in the dark, assuming that humans trump the abilities of animals only in brain power. But a recent study revealed that many animals are viewing in low resolution where humans are seeing in crystal clear HD, with […]

A new theory on how the earliest American settlers arrived thousands of years ago has gained traction, with researchers showing a possible migration route along Alaska’s Pacific border. Archaeologists recently cast doubt on the conventional theory that the earliest settlers came via Siberia, crossing Bering land bridge, as a gap between ice sheets opened up […]

Virgin’s newest spaceplane, the VSS Unity, undertook its second successful, supersonic, rocket-powered test flight on the morning of May 29, according to a Virgin press release. The Unity is said to be ushering the way for future commercial space travel. Richard Branson joined the Virgin Galactic and The Spaceship Company teams on the Mojave Air […]

NASA has shared an image that show an active area of our sun spewing flares from its surface. The stunning image, photographed between May 23 and 25, shows massive flares and magnetic field lines that stretched out many times the diameter of Earth, according to the space agency. “Active regions are areas of intense magnetic […]

Astronomers have discovered a peculiar neutron star hanging out by itself. The star, E0102, is located 200,000 light years from Earth. Neutron stars are the dense core of stars that have collapsed and gone through a supernova explosion. NASA says E0102 is rare because it has a low magnetic field and no stellar companion. The […]

Archaeologists have found yet another example of the horrors brought by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. A man was killed by a falling piece of rock as he tried to flee the area at the time, according to a video report from GeoBeats, citing scientists. “A formidable stone block (perhaps a door […]

Amazon billionaire boss Jeff Bezos has revealed he has a vision of colonizing the moon. Speaking to Geek Wire, Bezos said he wants his company Blue Origin to work with NASA and the ESA to create a permanent settlement on the Moon. But if the wheels of bureaucracy turn too slowly, he isn’t prepared to […]

Our universe is not as special as previously thought, according to new research. A team of scientists from the UK and Australia studying “dark energy,” the mysterious force accelerating the expansion of the universe, found that varying amounts of dark energy can support life—a conclusion that goes against currently held views on the issue, and […]

The deepest fish found in the ocean looks like a tadpole. The snailfish was discovered in the Mariana Trench, located in the Pacific Ocean, and is about 4 inches in length. They were collected from depths ranging from 22,000 and 26,000 feet. According to researchers, the fish is the top predator along certain stretches of […]

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, has a cycle that converts methane from a gas into a liquid, similar to the water cycle on Earth, reports Science alert. The latest findings on this cycle have scientists understanding that intense methane rainstorms occur more frequently than expected. These rainstorms occur less than once a Titan year, which is […]

The earliest known cases of cancer have been found in two Egyptian mummies. A team of scientists conducted CT scans on the mummies and found that a 4,000-year-old female mummy had breast cancer, while a 3,800-year-old male mummy had multiple myeloma, a type of bone marrow cancer, according to a release by the University of […]

The accepted theory is that planets are formed as grains of dust collide within the disk of material that circles young stars. Pluto, however, could be breaking the mould, formed not from dust, but from comets—a billion or so—according to research published May 23. “We’ve developed what we call ‘the giant comet’ cosmochemical model of […]

Space X took into orbit two NASA research satellites and five Iridium Next communications satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket. Footage released by NASA shows the May 22 launch, which took place at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 3:47 p.m. EDT. “Liftoff for GRACE Follow-On, continuing the legacy of the GRACE mission […]

Scientists say that their study of animal genomes, chiefly birds and turtles, has allowed them to crack the genetic code of dinosaurs. According to Kent Online, researchers at the University of Kent, UK, claim to have figured out what the overall genome structure of many dinosaur species would look like under a microscope. Researchers believe […]

NASA launched an orbital ATK rocket with supplies for the International Space Station on Monday, May 21. The Cygnus spacecraft is loaded with about 7,400 pounds of supplies and payloads, and was launched into space at around 4:45 am at NASA’s facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. The supplies included clothing and food for the six […]