Author: contact.geology

Astronomers capture surprising changes in Neptune’s temperatures

An international team of astronomers have used ground-based telescopes, including the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), to track Neptune’s atmospheric temperatures...

Is it time to send another message to intelligent aliens?

Researchers want to open up a dialogue about what humanity should advertise about itself in deep space. Scientists have crafted a new message for any...

NASA’s ‘Mega moon rocket’ test resumes. Why were so many details about it kept secret?

NASA's was extra guarded about its big rocket test. NASA's new mega moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), is getting one step closer to...

World’s oldest known case of cannibalism revealed in trilobite fossils

The trilobite Redlichia rex likely chomped on its own kind. It's a dog-eat-dog world out there. But before there were dogs — or even dinosaurs...

First private mission reaches International Space Station

The first fully private mission reached the International Space Station early Saturday with a four-member crew from startup company Axiom Space. NASA has hailed the...

Record 1st-quarter deforestation in Brazilian Amazon

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon set a new quarterly record in the first three months of 2022 compared to a year earlier, official data...

Dozens hospitalised as Iraq gripped by dust storm

The storm erupted in the north of the country on Thursday, prompting the cancellation of flights serving Arbil, capital of the autonomous Kurdistan region. As...

Who was king before Tyrannosaurus?

Iconic tyrannosauroids like T. rex famously dominated the top of the food web at the end of the reign of the dinosaurs. But they...

Kyanite mineral information

Chemical Formula: Al2(SiO4)OLocality: Common world wide.Name Origin: From the Greek kyanos = “blue.” Kyanite, whose name derives from the Greek word kuanos sometimes referred to as “kyanos”, meaning...

Giant impact crater in Greenland occurred a few million years after dinosaurs went extinct

Danish and Swedish researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha impact crater, a 31 km-wide meteorite crater buried under a kilometer of Greenlandic ice. The...

Charles Darwin’s stolen ‘tree of life’ notebooks returned after 20 years

A pair of Charles Darwin's iconic notebooks have been returned to their rightful home more than 20 years after they were mysteriously stolen. The...

Big John, world’s largest Triceratops, got mauled by a rival dinosaur

"The impact probably came from behind." A violent encounter with a rival dinosaur may explain why Big John, the most massive Triceratops skeleton ever found,...

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