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Before there was the human, there was the hobbit. Now, after discovering stone tools that are 1.48 million years old, archaeologists are gaining a clearer picture of how our diminutive and elusive primate cousins, Homo floresiensis, used to live. Homo sapiens are just one species in the diverse Hominini family, which also includes the diminutive three-feet-tall Homo floresiensis, affectionately nicknamed …

You might have seen an interesting phrase popping up in your social media feeds lately: “Chiron is in retrograde.” If you’re anything like me, you’ve never heard of Chiron before – and I’m a professional astronomer. So what is Chiron, and what does it mean to be in retrograde? The short answer is that Chiron is an asteroid-slash-comet orbiting somewhere …

NASA had a special Christmas gift last year. On December 24, the Parker Solar Probe reached the closest it will ever get to the Sun. As it flew just 6.1 million kilometers (3.8 million miles) from its surface, it snapped a picture of the solar wind, the stream of particles that is released from the Sun, which can travel at …

NASA Who will be the next human to leave their footprint on the surface of the Moon? They were the pioneers of space exploration – the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. The loss of Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, who guided the stricken mission safely back to Earth …

“And then you have the Spinosaurus which was kind of weird in general,” Rowe says.  “There was a study by Dave Hone and Tom Holtz about how it was waiting on the shorelines, waiting for food to go by that it could fish out.” But Spinosaurus’ foraging wasn’t limited to fishing. There was a pterosaur found preserved in its stomach …

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NASA has revealed the most detailed images yet taken of comet 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar visitor that is currently barreling its way through our solar system. The images, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, have enabled astronomers to more accurately estimate the space object’s size — and it looks like it’s smaller than we thought, NASA said in a statement. 3I/ATLAS …

Great white sharks are magnificent creatures and an icon among sea predators. But despite their fame across the world, inspiring stories, books, films, games, and more, there’s still a great deal we do not know about them. In an effort to answer a long-running question surrounding their populations, scientists have stumbled into a deeper mystery concerning their genetics that has …

The Hera mission to follow-up on the aftermath of NASA’s DART asteroid crash has caught sight of two other asteroids in an important test of its camera ahead of its rendezvous its main target: the double space rock system of Didymos and Dimorphos. In September of 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART for short, slammed into the small …

Europa’s Bizarre Hotspot: Scientists May Have Solved a Long-Standing Space Mystery  SciTechDaily Source link