Comet Leonard, the brightest of the year, is fading and acting strange | Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs hit Earth during northern spring, scientists argue | 'Mystery hut' on the moon just the latest weird lunar find by China's Yutu 2 rover
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The new research hinges on a site called Tanis, located in North Dakota, that an overlapping group of scientists announced in 2019. That work argued that the site's fossilized wildlife died within hours of a large asteroid slamming into the YucatΓ‘n peninsula 66 million years ago in what is today Mexico.
China's Yutu 2 rover is the first spacecraft to explore the surface of the moon's far side, and the wheeled robot has made some interesting discoveries during its historic journey.
Blue Origin's next crewed space mission will see "Good Morning America" anchor Michael Strahan fly to space with five other people. The launch is set for Saturday, Dec. 11 at 9:45 a.m. EDT (1445 GMT).
A Rocket Lab Electron launcher carrying two commercial Earth observation spacecraft lifted off from the company's New Zealand site at 7:02 p.m. EST (1:02 p.m. Dec. 9 local New Zealand time, or 0002 Dec. 9 GMT).
A volcanic peak standing more than a mile high on Venus may still be active, new findings show, possibly shedding light on hotly debated findings that suggest that life may exist on the hellish planet.
(NASA, ESA, A. Hajian (University of Waterloo), H. Bond (Pennsylvania State University), and B. Balick (University of Washington); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America))
NGC 6891 glows brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope, as the observatory assists scientists in learning more about how these gas clouds formed and evolved.
A used Falcon 9 rocket blasted off at 1 a.m. (0600 GMT) from Pad 39A here at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). The mission marked the fifth flight for this particular booster.
