N ASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System is a brand-new technology demonstration of solar sailing. The space agency is ...

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There’s little doubt that the last few months in Death Valley National Park have been particularly toasty, but officials have now confirmed that the hottest place on Earth has just experienced its ...

The swing below safety altitude was necessary to change trajectory following thrusters problems, but we got Bepi's best ...

The Full Moon wouldn't have looked too different 120 million years ago. Except for the active volcanoes, which dinosaurs ...

An abalone pearl is created in a similar way to that of an oyster, building up layer by layer as nacre accumulates around a ...

The second – illustrated in a recent paper from researchers studying Menga, a prehistoric dolmen in southern Spain – is to ...

Not so with a new species of dinosaur recently discovered in Tamba-Sasayama City, in the Hyogo Prefecture of Japan.

"Bolides, very bright meteors that can even be seen in daylight, are a regular occurrence – on the order of several dozen ...

From there, it was just a short hop and a jump to “this genetic disorder suggests a backward stage in human evolution”- a direct quote from the paper’s conclusion – and thus on to attention-grabbing ...

The baby northern hairy-nosed wombat was recently spotted by researchers at the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) while scrolling through 100 hours of motion-sensor footage captured in the Richard ...

The eighth-ever object whose impact was predicted fell on Earth early this year and was the smallest yet, about half the size of 2024 RW. Some fragments from it were found outside Berlin, Germany. It ...