Category: 7. Science

Jan. 6, 2026
Contact: Eric Stann, StannE@missouri.edu
Photo by Abbie Lankitus

Scientists at the University of Missouri have identified a small group of unusual objects in the early universe. Using…

The oldest fossilised remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that are 538 million years old.

The very oldest of these are simple fossilised marks (called Treptichnus) made by

After combing through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of astronomers at the University of Missouri says they have identified a sample of galaxies that have a previously…

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted two rare kinds of dust in the dwarf galaxy Sextans A, one of the most chemically primitive galaxies near the Milky Way. The finding of metallic iron dust and silicon carbide…

The moon is quietly absorbing tiny fragments of Earth’s atmosphere — and has been doing so for billions of years, a new study reveals. This surprising case of cosmic cannibalism is thanks to supercharged solar winds and, more importantly, our…

Neither jellyfish nor sea anemones have brains. But these animals sleep in ways strikingly similar to humans, according to a study…

A routine day of mapping rocks in West Texas changed when geologist Jason W. Ricketts noticed strange bone fragments.

The fragments turned out to belong to Tenontosaurus, a plant-eating dinosaur that roamed the region about 115 million years ago.