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

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

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.

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 fossilized remains of Pegasus volans were retrieved from the early Eocene Bolca Lagerstatte of northern Italy, dating back around 50 million years. We’ve known about the creature since the 18 th ...

“We suspect the seals have learned to associate sonar noise from the research instrument with the presence of food—a phenomenon known as the ‘dinner bell’ effect,” Héloïse Frouin-Mouy, lead study ...

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

When we think of fungi, our minds probably fill with images of mushrooms. But what you don’t see on a typical stroll through the forest is the complex network that lies just beneath the soil. This is ...