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Tom Edathikunnel
New model explains Io’s misplaced volcanos
Io's volcanic activity may be due to a unique combination of ordinary gravitational squeezing by Jupiter and friction on molten rock within Io's interior.
September 14, 2015
Largest dinosaur with birdlike wings and feathers
Discovery of largest-ever winged dino in China, from 125 million years ago. It was sleek and birdlike with feathers on its arms and torso, but it could not fly.
July 29, 2015
When Earth’s continents rose above its oceans
Earth's thick continental crust - the land under our feet - may have risen from the oceans half a billion years earlier than scientists previously thought.
July 19, 2015
Update on mission to asteroid Bennu
NASA's OSIRIS-Rex mission is on target for a 2016 launch to near-Earth asteroid Bennu. It will reach Bennu in 2018 and return samples to Earth in 2023.
July 18, 2015
Yeti crabs thrive in hot ocean vents near Antarctica
This species of crab - found abundantly near the hot-water vents of the Southern Ocean - have now been described for the first time.
July 8, 2015
Stars’ spiral arms cradle baby planets
A new theoretical model focuses on the spiral arms now known to exist around some young stars. The spiral arms may enable rocky planets like Earth to form.
July 2, 2015
Next Mars mission is ESA’s ExoMars
ESA's ExoMars consists of two separate missions to investigate Mars. The first, set to launch in January 2016, consists of an orbiter and lander.
June 29, 2015
Titan’s strange lakes may be sinkholes
What forms the depressions holding liquid hydrocarbon lakes on Saturn's moon Titan? It might be a process similar to that creating caves and sinkholes on Earth.
June 26, 2015
Methane in Mars meteorites = life?
Biological processes can produce methane. Its presence in Martian meteorites might mean Mars was or is habitable for microbial life. Or it might not.
June 25, 2015
Supermassive black hole is serial exploder
Astronomers see cavities - like giant bubbles - in hot gas around galaxy cluster NGC 5813, caused by multiple eruptions over millions of years of a black hole.
June 16, 2015
