From what little we know about them, it seems very different. Mysterious creatures living in the ocean half a billion years ago – headless, messy things, mostly alien to us in all respects. Except they weren’t, new research suggests. In fact, biodata, an ancient marine life-form inhabiting the earth from …
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The natural world has undergone an almost unimaginable regime change, reflecting the vast and growing dominance of humanity on our planet’s most important resource: freshwater. Researchers say this is the first global survey of human effects on the water cycle. Scientists have used NASA’s satellite measurements to remotely measure the …
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So far, we have found hundreds of stars with multiple planets scattered throughout the galaxy. Each one is unique, but 88 light-years away, the HD 158259, the star-orbiting system is truly special. The star itself is about the same mass and slightly larger than the sun – a minority in …
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If you can zoom in and see the solar system from a distance, you’ll see that at least one thing in the picture is correct: the planets are more or less arranged in a flat plane, orbiting the sun around the equator. This is called an eclipse, and is thought …
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