SCIENCE SNAPSHOTS

Daily Marvels in Scientific Exploration

WASHINGTON Surmising even the physical appearance of a dinosaur or any extinct animal based on its fossils is a tricky proposition, with so many uncertainties involved. Assessing a dinosaur's intelli

The glorious, billowing Southern Ring Nebula is the cocoon of a dying star and it has a secret. Scientists have found this nebula to exhibit a double-ring structure that evidences not one, but poss

Most people catch the common cold at least once a year, making the seasonal sniffles a staple of the human experience. But when in Homo sapiens ' history did people first start catching the common c

Like the family camcorder, the largest digital camera in the world will capture the next 10 years of cosmic life in memorable detail. In mid-May, the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Digital C

Researchers have detected an unusually large, previously undetected molecule in the Cat's Paw Nebula, a star-forming region about 5,500 light-years from Earth. At 13 atoms, the compound, called 2-met

We may no longer have to fear unseen Empire State Building-sized space rocks passing within our orbit. Asteroid hunters have identified 27,500 overlooked near-Earth asteroids using cutting-edge tec

The journey into space is a long one, which gives many spacecraft time for a side quest or two during their missions. In the case of the European Space Agency 's Hera mission, the side quest is a cl

Since the demise of the dinosaurs, mammals have thrived. Without their scaly peers around, their numbers exploded, they diversified, and they got bigger but just how big? We know that the blue whale

A scientist who's been working on NASA's Voyager mission for more than half a century has helped shepherd the iconic spacecraft all the way to interstellar space and now, he says that the probes are

It turns out that Mount Erebus spews a fortune in gold across Antarctica $2.1 million worth of it per year, according to reports. Youd struggle to pan it out of the Antarctic snow, though. Tiny part