Therapsids, the ancient relatives of mammals, once roamed Earth in great numbers during the middle to late Permian period. These land-dwelling creatures would later evolve into mammals, but their earliest history has long remained unclear.
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Whether anything ever lived on Mars is unknown. And the present environment, with harsh temperatures, intense radiation, and a sparse atmosphere, isn’t exactly propitious for life….
It’s spring skywatching at its best: The annual Lyrid meteor shower is back, offering people across the Northern Hemisphere a chance to catch shooting stars in the night sky.
The meteor shower began on April 16, but will reach its peak Monday…
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Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who has ventured to space four times, is due to return to Earth on Saturday night from the International Space Station. Pettit…
For their study, Gaby et al. organized an on-campus “Speed-Friending” event for 40 female volunteers, consisting of four distinct phases. First, participants had their headshots taken. Next, they looked at pictures of all…
Although we tend to see mostly the glorious and fun parts of hanging out in a space…
A camera affixed to the International Space Station recently spotted some curious symbols amid a barren desert landscape.
“This caught our attention,” Charles Black, the founder of the Earth and space…
In a recent deep-sea research expedition reported by Animals Around The Globe, scientists have identified what may be the oldest living fish ever recorded in the Pacific Ocean.
The discovery, centered around a species of rockfish, could rewrite…
A devastating environmental collapse that began in the 1960s is still leaving deep marks beneath the surface of the Earth. According to a new study published in Nature Geoscience, the Aral Sea—once the world’s fourth-largest lake—was so…
While most people searching for signs of alien life these days might have their eyes on the exoplanet K2-18b, one team of researchers is keeping their sights a little closer to home.
Texas A&M researcher Michael Tice and a team of international…