Cosmic Question Mark Seen By JWST Is No Mystery For Astronomers
A collision 7 billion years ago and a surge of magnification. Look at that in infrared, and somehow you end up with a question mark.
A collision 7 billion years ago and a surge of magnification. Look at that in infrared, and somehow you end up with a question mark.
What’s in a name? Well, new research into marmoset monkeys has revealed that they join the list of creatures that use one for each other.
Something strange is occurring in the skies over Antarctica. Each winter, a blisteringly cold ring of wind rapidly circulates clockwise in the stratosphere above Antarctica,
The first mission of the Polaris Program, called Polaris Dawn, is expected to launch on Monday following weeks of delays. Some of them were weather-related;
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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
Two large pterosaurs have been discovered in Afro-Arabia, including a new species that’s been named Inabtanin alarabia and had a 5-meter (16-foot) wingspan. The fossils
A small meteor about 1 meter (3 feet) in diameter burned up over Luzon Island in the Philippines, yesterday night local time. The celestial show
The Ulas family, in southern Türkiye, is like no other. For the last two decades, some of its members have been quietly challenging just about
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Astronaut Matthew Dominick has captured the moment a meteor collided with the Earth’s atmosphere, creating a huge flash of light. Take a look out your
While studying some humdrum sealife activity off the coast of Canada, scientists stumbled across a band of northern elephant seals exhibiting a fascinating behavior: each
An abalone identity crisis has finally found a solution thanks to hardworking scientists in New Zealand. Found off the Manawatāwhi/Three Kings Islands, it had long
To us, the Moon looks like an immutable gray world. As it goes through its phases, month after month, its face doesn’t change. But this
There are many words that come to mind when we think of dinosaurs. Majestic. Powerful. Terrifying. You know: generally, whatever the opposite is to “similar