Deep beneath the Earth’s surface, an extraordinary discovery has been made. Microbes – alive and thriving – have been found sealed within a fracture of 2-billion-year-old rock.
This finding pushes the boundaries of our understanding of…
A rare fossil discovered in Oklahoma is making waves across the paleontological community after a geology professor and his student unearthed what could be one of the oldest known examples of a gemstone-quality ammonite fossil.
Precisely four years from today — on Friday, April 13, 2029 — an asteroid as wide as the Empire State Building is wide will come closer to Earth than orbiting geosynchronous satellites in a very rare event. Apophis will not impact…
A groundbreaking new study has pushed the timeline of life’s origin further back than previously thought. Researchers have determined that the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) – the microbe from which every living organism on Earth…
One of the oldest-known meteor showers is set to kick off this week and deliver a night sky show through the end of this month.
The Lyrid meteor shower is visible from roughly April 16 to April 26. It will peak in the pre-dawn hours of April 22…
SAN ANTONIO – As April’s full moon rose on Saturday night, several KSAT viewers…
Every year, millions of people discard their old electronic devices without realizing they’re throwing away something valuable—22-carat gold. Researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland have developed an eco-friendly technique to recover this…
A high school student working with Caltech researchers has developed a powerful AI-based model that revealed 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space, dramatically expanding the scientific utility of NASA’s retired NEOWISE telescope….
The great Russian physicist and Nobel laureate Lev Landau once remarked that “cosmologists are often in error, but never in doubt.” In studying the history of the universe itself, there is always a chance that we have got it all wrong, but we…
Another batch of Starlink wireless internet satellites is in orbit after a full moon-lit SpaceX launch from Florida.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink 12-17 mission Saturday night (April 12) from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC).
The…