The site is called Tanis, in the Hell Creek Formation of southwestern North Dakota. In 2019, a team led by Robert DePalma described it as a rare snapshot of the first minutes to hours after the Chicxulub asteroid impact 66 million years ago. The most arrestin…

An international team of researchers has identified a new fuel-efficient route between Earth and the Moon that also avoids the kind of communications blackout the Artemis II crew experienced when their spacecraft slipped behind the lunar far side in April. Th…

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Researchers at SMU and the Perot Museum have identified a new species of mosasaur, a 'T. rex of the sea' that lived alongside dinosaurs millions of years ago.

For more than three decades, experts have been trying to solve the mystery of why a certain kind of underwater fault triggers earthquakes way more predictably than others.

Each of the two Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, carries a phonograph record. The records hold sounds and images chosen to represent Earth, assembled by a committee led by Carl Sagan. The records themselves are the part most people know about. The cover …

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When they reach the bottom of a soap dispenser, frugal handwashers might try adding water to the bottle to push out the last bit of soap. But usually, the water drills right through the soap and jets out an only slightly sudsy splash.

Medieval records of the northern lights extending as far as Japan have led researchers to evidence for a powerful burst of protons from the sun.