The first bones from this dinosaur were picked up in the Sahara Desert in what is now Niger by French paleontologists in the 1950s.
Then in the late 1990s, Paul Sereno, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago, and his colleagues discovered the bulk of the dino's bones, including its skull.
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But the US space agency said the chances of a new "Near-Earth Object" (NEO) like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs were too remote to divert scarce resources.
Scott Pace, head of program analysis and evaluation at NASA, said the agency could not do more to detect NEOs "given the constrained ...
But when a bizarre explosion was detected last year, it left astronomers puzzled. Now, it looks like SN 2006gz might have been caused by two white dwarfs colliding together.
Millions of years ago, there were two regular stars in a binary system, orbiting one another. Over time, one, and then the other ...
During a recent conference in Europe, scholars and space scientists met to propose unusual circumstances that might happen in space exploration
Law in space is currently covered by the Outer Space Treaty of 1967. It's been ratified by 98 states, and follows the tradition of maritime law - states have ...
But then space officials at the agency denied the report. So what's going on?
The Chinese official new agency Xinhua reported that Li Guoping, a spokesman for the agency said, "China at present has not decided on developing a space station." That sounds like the possibility is still open, ...
This newly discovered planet weighs in with 45 times the mass of the Earth, and might look similar to Saturn in composition and appearance. But the news gets better, it's in the star's habitable zone, and could have water-covered moons.
The discovery of a 5th planet around 55 Cancri was made by astronomers ...
In 1927, the Belgian priest Georges Lemaître was the first to propose that the universe began with the explosion of a primeval atom. His proposal came after observing the red shift in distant nebulas by astronomers to a model of the universe based on relativity. Years later, Edwin Hubble found ...
In August, NASA’s unmanned Phoenix Mars Mission blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center as the first mission of NASA’s Mars Scout Program. Phoenix will reach the Red planet in May 2008, and is part of NASA’s strategy to “follow the water” on Mars. This will pave the way ...
The massive newcomer beats the previous stellar-mass black hole discovered October 17 in the M33 galaxy that has 16 times the mass of our Sun, the US space agency said.
Like the much larger, supermassive black holes found at galaxy centers, stellar-mass black holes have such powerful gravity fields ...
The new technology could become an important tool for both biological research and materials research, say Matthew J. Lang and David C. Appleyard, whose work is being published in the journal Lab on a Chip.
The idea of using light beams as tweezers to manipulate cells and tiny objects has been around ...
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