Advertisements When the discovery of fossilized footprints in what is now New Mexico was announced in 2021, it was a bombshell moment for archeology that seemingly rewrote a chapter in the human story. Now new research offers further evidence of their importance. Although they look like they could have been made yesterday, the tracks were … Read more
Advertisements The image shows a visualization of a huge, glowing planetary body created by the collision of planets. In the foreground, fragments of ice and rock fly away from the impact and later cross between Earth and the host star, which can be seen in the background of the image. Credit: Mark Garlick Scientists have … Read more
Advertisements The sun will appear as a blazing ring of fire in the sky over America on Saturday, October 14, as an annular eclipse sweeps over the continent. The eclipse will be visible from several states in the US, starting at 09:13 PDT (12:13 EDT, 1613 GMT) in Oregon before moving across Nevada, Utah, New … Read more
Advertisements Is asteroid Psyche really a chunk of mostly metal? Is an object nearly as wide as Massachusetts the core of a baby planet whose rocky outer layers were torn off during a cataclysmic collision in the early days of the Solar System? Right now, astronomers can only say maybe, maybe not. NASA launched the … Read more