About 120 million years ago, Victoria, Australia, was a land of endless winter. The southern coast was a frigid river valley, its banks lined with pine trees and its waters teeming with fish.

Young mice seemingly attempt to revive an anaesthetised cage mate by grooming and biting it and will even pull aside the ...

By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies – and a very ...

Greenland sharks have been identified as the longest-living vertebrates on Earth, potentially reaching ages of up to 500 years. This discovery, based on radiocarbon dating of their eye lenses ...

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rather than circular like the Earth, it is unclear whether it would be able to host life. Image: HD 20794 d sits in a 'habitable zone'. Pic: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC)/PA It was first ...

At the same time, the spacecraft got its first glimpse of the Moon from Earth’s orbit. ” An image taken from the top deck of Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander with the Moon in the distance.

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) first spotted 2024 YR4 on December 27, 2024. At that point the asteroid was 515,116 miles (829,000 kilometers) from Earth. The asteroid is ...

"Firefly captured the beauty of our home planet during another Earth orbit burn," the company said. Over the weekend, Blue Ghost got its first look at its final destination: the Moon. Firefly shared ...

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As we prepare to venture into 2025’s many upcoming sci-fi TV shows, the hype is building for "Alien: Earth", the franchise’s first-ever TV show. We know it’s coming this summer, but we haven ...

Alien: Earth, the upcoming FX series set in the expansive sci-fi universe, is a show we don’t really know much about even though it’s set to arrive later this year. And the latest teaser doesn ...