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May 30, 2022 by News Staff

In a new paper published in the International Journal of Astrobiology, Houston Community College researcher Irina Romanovskaya proposes that free-floating planets can be used as a means of interstellar travel for large groups and populations of intelligent biological and post-biological species as well as their technologies; she also proposes possible technosignatures and artifacts that may be produced by extraterrestrial civilizations using free-floating...

May 30, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA has released a colorful image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the galaxy pair Arp 303. This Hubble image shows Arp 303, a galaxy...

May 30, 2022 by The Conversation

On May 7, 2022, the Mast camera (Mastcam) onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover took a photo which appeared to show a doorway carved into the Martian rock. This...

May 30, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced an outstanding image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 7496. This Hubble image shows NGC 7496, a barred...

May 27, 2022 by News Staff

Just 0.5 mm wide, the tiny walking robot developed by Northwestern University’s Professor John Rogers and his colleagues can bend, twist, crawl, walk,...

May 27, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

Scientists from the United States, Italy, Denmark and Brazil have successfully sequenced the genome of a 35-40 year-old male who died in the ancient city...

May 27, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3631. This Hubble image shows NGC 3631, a grand design spiral...

May 27, 2022 by News Staff

Early Mars had rivers, but the cause of the transition from a wet planet to dry remains unknown. Past Martian climate can be probed using the distribution...

May 26, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Eupera troglobia is the first fully described cave-dwelling clam species discovered in the Americas, and possibly the second in the world. Eupera troglobia...

May 26, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking new photo of the spiral galaxy NGC 3509. This Hubble image shows NGC 3509, a spiral galaxy...

May 26, 2022 by News Staff

Our real-world memories are formed in a particular context and are often not acquired or recalled in isolation. Time is a key variable in the organization...

May 26, 2022 by News Staff

Palaeospondylus gunni, a small creature with an eel-like body that lived 390 million years ago, is one of the most enigmatic fossil vertebrates, and its...

May 25, 2022 by News Staff

LiDAR (light detection and ranging) has documented 26 settlement sites, including two remarkably large, of the Casarabe culture in the Llanos de Mojos,...

May 25, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Hubble team has released a stunning image of an intermediate spiral galaxy called NGC 3227 and its companion, the dwarf elliptical galaxy NGC 3226. This...

May 25, 2022 by Sergio Prostak

Thanatosdrakon amaru had a wingspan of nearly 9 m (29.5 feet) and lived in what is now Argentina during the Cretaceous period. Life reconstruction of Thanatosdrakon...

May 25, 2022 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced an outstanding image of part of the spiral galaxy NGC 3718. This Hubble image shows NGC 3718, a spiral...

May 25, 2022 by News Staff

Burn marks discovered on the 50,000-year-old eggshell fragments several years ago suggested the first Australians cooked and ate large eggs from extinct...

May 24, 2022 by News Staff

Using data from the REsolved Spectroscopy Of a Local VolumE (RESOLVE) and the Environmental COntext Catalog (ECO) surveys, astronomers have found evidence...

May 24, 2022 by News Staff

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft successfully observed the May 15-16, 2022 total lunar eclipse from a unique vantage point, 100 million km (64 million miles) from...

May 24, 2022 by News Staff

Planetary scientists from the ETH Zürich and elsewhere have determined palladium-silver (Pd-Ag) and platinum (Pt) isotope compositions of 13 iron meteorites...