With giant Saturn hanging in the blackness and sheltering Cassini from the sun’s blinding glare, the spacecraft viewed the rings as never before.
This marvelous panoramic view was created by combining a 165 images taken by the Cassini wide-angle camera over nearly three hours on Sept. 15, 2006. The mosaic images were acquired as the spacecraft [...]
Resembling a smudge more than an animal, a mysterious life form known as a placozoan has now joined other obscure and primitive creatures whose genomes are providing insight into how animals first arose more than 650 million years ago.
Called Trichoplax adhaerens, the creature’s genome sequence, reported in the Aug. 21 issue of Nature, has surprised [...]
About 4,000 light years from Earth lies RCW 108, a region where stars are actively forming within the Milky Way galaxy. The region contains young star clusters, including one that is deeply embedded in a cloud of molecular hydrogen. By using data from different telescopes, astronomers determined that star birth in this region is being [...]
After completing its mission to re-supply the International Space Station, the European Space Agency’s Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) entered the Earth’s atmosphere, where researcher’s captured images of its fiery end.
In the early morning hours of Sept. 29, 2008, the ATV entered the atmosphere above an uninhabited section of the Pacific Ocean, southwest [...]
Misinterpreted fragments of leg bones, teeth and brow ridges found in Palau appear to be an archaeologist’s undoing, according to researchers at three institutions. They say that the so-called dwarfs of these Micronesian islands actually were modern, normal-sized hunters and gatherers.
In a paper published Aug. 27 in PLoS ONE, an open access journal of the [...]
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