Despite an incredible number of visible differences, modern-day crocodiles and birds share a common ancestor dating back to the Early Triassic. Paleontologists call them archosaurs: a hardy clade of reptiles that endured through the sulfurous, inhospitable years of the Great Dying that followed the Permian-Triassic extinction about 250 million years ago. Scientists had long assumed … Read more
Astronomers have measured atmospheric motion around WASP-127b’s equator at about 9 kilometers per second, about 33,000 kilometers per hour. The giant exoplanet is approximately 520 light-years away, but its climate left a velocity signature precise enough to separate gas moving toward Earth from gas moving away. The result, obtained with the Very Large Telescope of … Read more
NASA announced this Wednesday the retirement of Michael Fincke, an astronaut who spent a total of 549 days in space, making him the fourth astronaut with the longest time there in the history of the space agency. He also became the first person to require evacuation from the International Space Station, as a result of … Read more
Empty space is not as empty as it seems. That’s the conclusion of a new study that examines signals from a dead star and offers what researchers say is the strongest evidence yet that extreme magnetic fields can alter the properties of a vacuum, making a seemingly empty space act like a prism and changing … Read more
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For nearly two decades, scientists thought that Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, hid a global ocean of liquid water beneath its icy surface. A new study says the ocean probably isn’t there. Instead, Titan’s interior may be mostly slushy ice, with small pockets of warm water rather than a large sea. The story begins in 2008, … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Elephants are widely worshiped by many people today, but a recent study suggests that early humans slaughtered them for survival almost 2 million years ago. A group of international researchers found what they describe as “the earliest direct evidence of proboscidean butchery,” including a newly identified elephant … Read more
Little is known about what was happening shortly after the Big Bang, but researchers now hope to shed new light on the matter by taking advantage of the far side of the Moon. Scientists plan to put a suitcase-sized satellite into orbit around the Moon, using the data it collects as it passes by the … Read more
Moon dust has settled after the body of a 4.5-ton SpaceX rocket crashed into the terrain near Einstein Crater on August 5. That impact site was photographed by South Korea’s lunar-orbiting Danuri spacecraft, as well as NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). A Chinese commercial space debris monitoring satellite also reportedly tracked and recorded the 5,400 … Read more
One of the most disappointing and relatable parts of aging is the experience of a joint that no longer does what it’s supposed to do: knees that hurt when you bend over, shoulders that make noise. The general assumption for decades has been that once cartilage in a joint has broken down, it cannot grow … Read more