You don’t know what you’ve got until you leave. Valviluculus pleristaminis Makes a perfect example. Scientists have recently identified this mysterious, extinct flower. It once bloomed in the Cretaceous period – the remains of a Purana-era flower, preserved in time-suspended amber from some unnamed days while dinosaurs were still roaming …
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Any species that reaches the stars is drawn at its fingertips. Probably more than once. A NASA post on the Astronomy Picture of the Day website is an iconic reminder of the tragedy that occurred in our spacefaring history. “After being tracked by radar and chased by a helicopter, the …
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In 2008, something unique fell out of the sky over Sudan, spreading across fragments in the vast and arid regions of the Nubian Desert. From above, this hurtful thing was known as Almahata Sita: a collection of about 600 meteorite fragments, which researchers worked hard to recover, and got its …
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In the ancient past, Europe was a very different place – at one time Britain was still operating in the European continent. Only after Millennia, when that connection was long broken, did modern humans begin to rediscover the ancient art of the Stone Age that once lived in the lands …
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In April 1990, our universe opened up to us in a whole new way. At the same time that the Hubble Space Telescope was launched and deployed, the most powerful space telescope ever was built. Although the tool started out with difficulty, Hubble has been in operation for a full …
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