Huge asteroid to hurtle near Earth on January 26th
A huge asteroid, about one third of a mile (0.5km) wide, will hurtle near earth on January 26th. Although it will be relatively near,...
Recovering fingerprints from feathers and eggs more successfully, new study
Forensic scientists at Abertay University in Scotland say they have identified the best way to recover fingerprints from eggs and feathers of birds of...
Best Loch Ness Monster pic prize won by Swede who’s never been there
Swedish Loch Ness Monster aficionado Bjarne Sjöstrand won the ₤2,000 cash prize for best photograph, even though he has never been to Scotland.
Mr. Sjöstrand took...
Gibbons talk like our human ancestors used to
The way white-handed gibbons talk to one another is very similar to how our human ancestors used to millions of years ago, researchers from...
SLS RS-25 engine hot fire test completed by NASA
The SLS RS-25 engine, formerly the space shuttle main engine, the one that will drive NASA’s next great rocket to deep space, underwent its...
New marine reptile species from Jurassic era discovered in Scotland
University of Edinburgh palaeontologists have identified a dolphin-like creature – a new species of reptile – from the Jurassic era, that inhabited warm, shallow...
Massive fireball lights up Bucharest sky as meteor disintegrates
A huge ball of fire, a large meteor entering the Earth’s atmosphere, disintegrated in a ball of fire lighting up the Bucharest sky in the...
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fails on soft landing attempt
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, the firm that tried but failed to bring part of its Falcon 9 rocket down to a soft landing, said...
Dying neutron star wobbles into space-time warp and vanishes
A pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star, a deep space spinning lighthouse, has disappeared from view because a space-time warp tilted its beams of...
Saturn’s location now pinpointed 50 times more precisely
Saturn’s and its moons’ locations can now be poinpointed about 50 times more precisely than measurements achieved by ground-based optical telescopes, thanks to pairing...