Monster of the deep? Or just a really funky dead whale? A monstrously huge creature that washed ashore on a remote Indonesian beach, oozing a mysterious red fluid, is probably a baleen whale in an advanced state of decomposition, experts said. The nearly 50-foot-long (15 meters) marine creature was lying […]
‘Dinosaur Mummy’ Emerges From the Oil Sands of Alberta – New York Times
Peggy Whitson during her eight spacewalk in March 2017. Photo Credit: NASA For the 200th time in nearly two decades, two people aboard the International Space Station donned spacesuits and ventured outside to perform a spacewalk. Problems during preparations for the excursion, however, ultimately caused the it to be cut short by more than two […]
Astronomers have spotted water vapor and evidence of exotic clouds in the atmosphere of an alien planet known as HAT-P-26b. The researchers also determined that HAT-P-26b’s atmosphere is dominated by hydrogen and helium to a much greater degree than that of Neptune or Uranus, the alien world’s closest counterparts in our own solar […]
Caption Close Screen grab from a YouTube video posted by Patasiwa Kumbang Amalatu of a mysterious rotting giant corpse discovered on Tuesday on the beach of a Indonesian Island. Screen grab from a YouTube video posted by Patasiwa Kumbang Amalatu of a mysterious rotting giant corpse discovered on Tuesday on the beach of a Indonesian Island. Photo: YouTube/Patasiwa Kumbang […]
A detailed study of an exoplanet reveals that it may have a primitive atmosphere composed mainly of helium and hydrogen. A new study shows the most detailed analysis of an exoplanet that’s very close to our own Neptune in size. Exoplanets continue to be a relevant topic of interest when it comes to space exploration. […]
Astronauts sped through the landmark 200th spacewalk at the International Space Station, after a glitch in preparations left them looking at a shortened trip outside. This marked the ninth spacewalk for space station commander Peggy Whitson and the first for flight engineer Jack Fischer. Whitson beat the record for the most time […]
The Inmarsat 5 F4 satellite pictured with one-half of the Falcon 9 rocket’s payload fairing. Credit: Inmarsat A powerhouse communications satellite owned by Inmarsat has been fueled for liftoff on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Monday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a mission to provide broadband links for passengers and crews aboard […]
Radiation exposure is among the top health risks for Mars astronauts, but the Red Planet poses many other dangers as well. The most immediate threat to human health on Mars is the low pressure of the planet’s atmosphere, which is about 100 times thinner than Earth’s. “If you are unprotected […]
Image copyright Illustration by Zhao Chuang Image caption Reconstruction of the dinosaur incubating its eggs The fossil of a baby dinosaur discovered in China more than 25 years ago has formally been identified as a new species of feathered dinosaur. The hatchling, dubbed Baby Louie, was found within a nest of dinosaur eggs. Palaeontologists have […]
