“Jurassic Park” may soon need a makeover. New research suggests Tyrannosaurus rex(T. rex) did not look like massive, upright crocodiles with sharp teeth protruding from their mouths. Instead, lips covered the dinosaurs’ teeth more like today’s lizards, according to the study published…Read More »
It’s taken seven years (or 57, depending on how you count), but now it’s official: one of NASA’s Apollo-era rocket movers is the heaviest self-propelled vehicle in the world. Guinness World Records on Wednesday (March 29) presented the space agency with a…Read More »
(CNN) Whatever the James Webb Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, or our other space exploration tools discover next, it will likely be located many light years away. But how far away is a light year – really? The circumference of our…Read More »
One of the most well-studied chemical processes in nature, photosynthesis, may not work quite as we thought it did, scientists have accidentally discovered. Photosynthesis is the process by which plants, algae and some bacteria convert carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and…Read More »
A Japanese company is resuming its work on creating artificial meteor showers. Tokyo-based ALE (Astro Live Experiences) had previously planned to create artificial shooting stars in 2020 with its ALE-2 satellite, which was launched in December 2019 on a Rocket lab Electron…Read More »
HELSINKI — A Chinese space official has urged the country to speed up its plans to develop lunar infrastructure or miss an opportunity that will never be repeated. Yang Mengfei of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), the country’s top…Read More »