By Lars Schmitz, Jingmai Kathleen O’Connor In 2016, our colleague Xing Lida held up a small piece of polished, deeply yellow amber. As sunlight shone through...
Posted on Mar 12, 2020 in Astronomy, Exoplanets “The observations” reports astrobiologist María Rosa Zapatero Osorio, coordinator of the ESO’s ESPRESSO science team about an exoplanet,...
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. We used to think of dinosaurs as giant lizards, but scientists...
A seemingly mature skull specimen preserved in Burmese amber reveals a new species, Oculudentavis khaungraae, that could represent the smallest known Mesozoic dinosaur in the fossil...
The skull of a new species of tiny, bird-like dinosaur has been discovered trapped in amber. Oculudentavis khaungraae would have been about the same size as...
<!––>Singing in the iron rain: a fanciful illustration of WASP-76b. (Courtesy: Frederik Peeters/ESO) It could be raining molten iron on some exoplanets, according to David Ehrenreich...
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA – On one faraway world, it is always cloudy with a chance of iron rain, according to Swiss and other European astronomers who...
When it is raining hard on Earth, English speakers say it is raining cats and dogs. But on exoplanet WASP-76b, cats and dogs does not come close to describing...
Iron rain or, as we are calling it at CNET, i-Rain. ESO/M. Kornmesser Prince had purple rain. Roy Batty had tears in rain. Saturn’s moon Titan...
Photo: aaronvonhagen / 604 Now Flickr Pool Winter’s last supermoon shone over Vancouver, Monday night, and the city made sure to get out and capture it....
