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For the first time, paleontologists have identified fossilized footprints of ankylosaurid dinosaurs, the tail-clubbed relatives of the better-known nodosaurids. The discovery was made in the Canadian Rockies, marking a significant addition to…

It is twenty years since NASA’s DART mission collided with a satellite after depleting its fuel during a rendezvous attempt.

The Demonstration for Autonomous Rendezvous Technology (DART) mission, not to be confused with the successful Double…

For over six decades, the origin of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), the highest-energy particles in the universe, has perplexed scientists. Despite their discovery in the 1960s, a comprehensive explanation for these energetic particles…

A major new study may help solve a long-standing puzzle in planetary science: why the meteoroids that are most likely to carry the building blocks of life so rarely make it to Earth.

Although carbon-rich asteroids are widespread in our solar…

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NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday.

Located about 120 light years away, the exoplanet appears to take an unusual…

In 2020, a group of scientists came up with an explanation for strange inconsistencies in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere. They suggested that ice-encrusted mushballs rain down during intense…

Genetic technologies soon gave him a way to do so. During the first decade of his studies of neuronal development, Ginty amassed a library of genes specific to different touch neuron types. Around 2007, he began genetically engineering mice…

A dramatic and cataclysmic event occurred over 5 million years ago, when water from the Atlantic Ocean surged through the Strait of Gibraltar, filling the Mediterranean Sea. This event, known as the Zanclean megaflood, is considered one of the…