Category: 7. Science

By Will Dunham

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the “Burtele Foot” discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, finding they belonged to an enigmatic human ancestor that lived alongside another…

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a…

Since the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered this past July — just the third confirmed object to arrive from another star — astronomers have been closely following its passage through our solar system.

As the icy visitor brightened on…

Laboratory analysis has confirmed the presence of the essential amino acid, tryptophan, within the Bennu asteroid samples.

Tryptophan participates in various biological processes, including supporting infant growth and the production of…

Insider Brief

• Princeton researchers developed an entangled diamond-based quantum sensor that achieves 40× higher sensitivity for probing tiny magnetic fluctuations.
• The sensor uses pairs of closely spaced nitrogen-vacancy defects…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.: A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly.

The National Science Foundation’s NoirLab released the picture Wednesday.

Snapped last month by the Gemini South telescope,…

Russia’s Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan was damaged on Thursday following the launch of a manned Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station, the Roscosmos space agency said.

The Soyuz MS-28, which was carrying Russian…

Are you prepared for the next total solar eclipse? Now less than a year away, on August 12, 2026, a path of totality will plunge eastern Greenland, western Iceland and northern Spain into darkness during the day for up to 2 minutes and 18…