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Sep 3, 2016 by News Staff

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has beamed back the most detailed images yet of the Solar System’s king of the planets, Jupiter. This montage of ten JunoCam images shows Jupiter growing and shrinking in apparent size before and after Juno made its closest approach on August 27 at 12:50 UTC. The images are spaced about 10 hours apart, one Jupiter day, so the Great Red Spot is always in roughly the same place. The small black spots visible on the planet...

Sep 1, 2016 by James Romero

A researcher’s proposal for an ESA mission to return to the Moon could lay the groundwork for a full-surface geological survey from a permanent lunar...

Aug 31, 2016 by News Staff

An international group of researchers has discovered that two regions in the genomes of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) are changing in response...

Aug 31, 2016 by News Staff

Using five space- and four ground-based telescopes, an international team of astronomers has found the most distant galaxy cluster to date. This composite...

Aug 30, 2016 by News Staff

Paleontologists say they’ve discovered the fossilized remains of a small-bodied pterosaur, a prehistoric flying reptile, which lived roughly 77 million...

Aug 30, 2016 by Natali Anderson

170-million-year-old fossilized remains discovered in Patagonia, Argentina, have been identified as a new genus and species of pterosaur. An artist’s...

Aug 26, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

For the first time, researchers have identified a multicomponent RNA virus – one containing different segments of genetic material in separate particles,...

Aug 24, 2016 by James Romero

A planet described as the ‘single most promising exoplanet discovered to date in terms of habitability’ and a ‘natural location where our civilization...

Aug 23, 2016 by News Staff

A new species of marsupial lion that lived approximately 18 million years ago has been identified from fossils found in Australia. Reconstruction of Microleo...

Aug 22, 2016 by News Staff

Certain beetles are known to pollinate plants. New fossil evidence from Mexican and Dominican fossilized amber indicates that they were doing so 20 million...

Aug 22, 2016 by Natali Anderson

According to a team of botanists and dendrochronologists from the University of Arizona, Stockholm University and the University of Mainz, a pine growing...

Aug 19, 2016 by James Romero

Our gas giants strip the icy surface off minor planets to form miniature versions of Saturn’s famous rings throughout the outer solar system, according...

Aug 18, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Humans living Teotihuacan, a sacred pre-Columbian city that flourished between 1 CE and 600 CE and was once the largest in the Americas, may have bred...

Aug 17, 2016 by Natali Anderson

For the first time, scientists have sequenced and analyzed the nuclear and mitochondrial DNA of the Cameroon scaly-tail (Zenkerella insignis), one of Africa’s...

Aug 17, 2016 by News Staff

The Preface of the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex, first panel on left, and the first three pages of the Table. Image credit: University of California,...

Aug 16, 2016 by News Staff

Recent findings by a team of experimental nuclear physicists in Hungary indicating the possible discovery of a new subatomic particle may be evidence of...

Aug 15, 2016 by News Staff

A team of scientists led by Dr. Ole Andreassen of the University of Oslo in Norway and the University of California, San Diego, has found evidence for...

Aug 12, 2016 by James Romero

A Cornell University Professor’s recalculation of models linking a proposed 9th solar system planet to a slant in the orbital plane around our Sun could...

Aug 11, 2016 by Natali Anderson

Liquid methane-filled canyons hundreds to thousands of feet deep etch the surface of Saturn’s largest moon, according to researchers with NASA’s Cassini...

Aug 10, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of scientists at the University of Maryland has discovered a beautiful, swirling flame phenomenon, the ‘blue whirl,’ which evolves from a fire...