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This Technology Can Suck Carbon Dioxide From Air, Transform It Into Fuel

The work revolves around a technology called direct air capture wherein multiple giant fans are used to draw and convert ambient air into low carbon fuel.

Ancient Saber-Toothed Predators Identified From Pre-Jurassic Era Fossils Discovered In Russia

While one of the species was a wolf-sized carnivore, the other was a bit smaller, long-snouted animal with extremely sharp needle-like teeth.

Milky Way’s Disc Much Bigger Than Previously Thought, Study Reveals

The researchers conducted a statistical analysis to discover the position of stars indicating the size of our galaxy's disc.

Farthest Single Star Discovered By Hubble Space Telescope 9 Billion Light-Years Away

While galaxies farther in space and further back in time have been found, this is the first time astronomers have observed — thanks to Hubble Space Telescope — a single star that is 9 billion light-years away.

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Alpha Centauri: Prospects Of Life Looking Good Around Stars In Neighboring System

The study revealed how much x-ray radiation the habitable zone of the stars would be receiving.

Milky Way’s Mass Estimated More Reliably Using Satellite Galaxies’ Angular Momentum

Previous estimates placed the mass of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, at between 700 billion and 2 trillion solar masses, but a new measurement technique offers a more precise and reliable number.

Jupiter Lightning Strikes Are Similar To Earth's, But Different, Juno Data Reveals

The decades-old mystery has finally been solved, thanks to Juno's eight close flybys of Jupiter and its state-of-art microwave and plasma wave instruments.

How To Watch NASA's Mysterious Mars Announcement Livestream

NASA will host a livestream about "new science results" from its Curiosity rover on Mars on Thursday afternoon.

Will Privatizing The International Space Station Maintain US Leadership In Space?

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told the Washington Post on Tuesday the agency was considering handing over the International Space Station to private companies in 2025.

Huge Differences Seen In How Mammals, Birds, And Insects See The World

Using human vision as the standard for sharpness, the group compared and ranked the vision of different species to determine how blurry or sharp things appear to them.

ISS Crew Launch Live Stream: Watch Astronauts Fly To The Space Station

The latest launch to the space station comes just a few days after three members from Expedition 55 returned safely to Earth.

NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Leaves Hibernation To Perform Historic Deep-Space Flyby

The probe is currently 162 million miles (262 million km) away from its next target and covering 760,200 miles (1,223,420 km) every day.

Earth Might Have Been Habitable Much Earlier Than Previously Thought

The researchers studied silica content in ancient minerals to determine when the continental crust could have formed and if the conditions were good enough for habitability.

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Starts Analyzing Drilled Rocks After Year-Long Break

The deployment of the lab on May 31 marks a major milestone for NASA, which has worked extremely hard to fix Curiosity’s drilling and sample analysis capabilities.

How Easter Island Heads Got Their Massive Hats: Ropes And Ramps

The people of Rapa Nui, also called Easter Island, placed the stone hats — each weighing several tons — from the quarry where they were made on tops of the statues that made the island famous.

Binary Star Evolution within a Globular Cluster

Globular Star Clusters Might Be Much Younger Than The Universe, Study Finds

The study revolves around binary star systems, stellar pairs that reside within these clusters, and their evolution.

Earth Days Are Getting Longer As The Moon Gets More Distant Gradually

Our only natural satellite has been moving away from the planet ever since it formed, resulting in a reduction of Earth’s rotational speed.

Planet Nine Might Not Be Responsible For Bizarre Orbits Of Distant Objects

Though no evidence suggests a ghostly planet exists in our stellar system, theories of the hypothetical planet, which is said to be 10 times the size of Earth, have been doing the rounds for almost two years.

WASP-127b: Exoplanet With Clear Metal-Rich Skies Might Have Traces Of Water

The exoplanet takes a little over four days to complete a single orbit of its host star.

New NASA Probe To Study Protective Bubble Of Our Solar System

The mission is expected to provide critical insight into the generation of local and interstellar cosmic radiation and how it might affect human space travelers.

Sterile Neutrino Theory Boosted After Fermilab Experiment Suggests New Elementary Particle

If the experiment at Fermilab and others like it in the future prove the existence of sterile neutrinos, these new-to-science elementary particles would force a rewrite of the Standard Model of Physics.

Pilot Whale Found With 17 Pounds Of Plastic Trash In Stomach Dies

The plastic bags found inside the whale’s stomach were so many that there was no space for the authorities to walk around in the autopsy room without stepping on the trash.

Astronauts Weighing More Could Have Higher Risk Of Spaceflight-Related Eye Problems

The researchers analyzed data of 45 astronauts who completed long-duration spaceflights to understand the cause of ocular conditions witnessed by some astronauts in the past.

2100-Year-Old Egyptian ‘Hawk’ Mummy Turns Out To Be A Child

The ancient mummy, kept at the Maidstone Museum, U.K., bore bird-themed decorations, but sophisticated micro-CT scans revealed the true picture.

Hubble Captures Star-Forming Relic Created From Galaxies Clashing 500 Million Years Ago

Scientists believe the galactic relic hosts more than a thousand bright star clusters.

Moons Of 121 Newly Found Giant Exoplanets May Have Life-Harboring Conditions

Some scientists believe these rocky moons might possibly make better candidates to host life, perhaps even more suitable than Earth.

Pluto Has Dunes Made Of Methane Ice, NASA’s New Horizons Data Shows

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft passed dwarf planet Pluto in 2015, and its data showed Pluto’s surface has dunes, like Earth, Mars, Venus, Saturn’s moon Titan and even the comet 67P.

Asteroid Impact Caused Mass Extinction, But Life Returned To Crash Site Quickly

When an asteroid crashed into Earth about 66 million years ago, the impact caused the extinction of 75 percent of all life on the planet, including the dinosaurs.

Killer Sheep Discovered Wolfing Down Bird Chicks

In s Britain sheep have been recorded devouring the eggs and chicks of ground-nesting wild birds

Rare Loner Neutron Star, Oxygen-Rich And Magnetism-Poor, Found Outside Milky Way

The neutron star has low magnetism and is rich in oxygen, and is the first without another star for a companion to be found outside the Milky Way.

Captive Dolphins Look Forward To Interacting With Caretakers, New Study Suggests

The research team conducted a series of experiments to see how the animals behave during different activities.

Fungus-Controlled Zombie Ants Adapted To Climate Change: Study

Under the impact of the fungus, the zombie ant clings onto aerial vegetation and the parasite starts to grow within its body, eventually piercing its head to release fungal spores on those below.

Great Barrier Reef Survived Five Near-Death Events Over 30 Millennia

The reef remained more resilient against environmental changes than previously thought and highly-sensitive to sedimentary changes and water quality.

Why High-Altitude Trips Affect Heart Functioning

Whenever a person ventures into hilly, high-altitude regions, their body starts developing inefficient physiological responses, mainly marked by an increase in breathing and heart rate.

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