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Category: Science Wire
Extraordinary fossil find sheds light on duck-billed dinosaurs
Duck-billed dinosaurs lived 83 million years ago. They are sometimes called 'the cows of the Cretaceous.' A new fossil find reveals their origins.
Shireen Gonzaga
January 29, 2016
Mars will be awesome in 2016
All the news you can fit into outer space LIVE on Slooh.com Mondays and Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. ET (1530 UTC). Or watch right here!
Deborah Byrd
January 28, 2016
Greatest-ever debris flow video
It starts slowly, but then ... whoa!
Deborah Byrd
January 27, 2016
Is El Niño at its peak?
This year's El Niño has likely reached its peak, say scientists, but given that Earth is hotter than in 135 years, there are no guarantees.
Editors of EarthSky
January 27, 2016
Dark matter linked to galaxy clusters’ internal structure
It's the first definitive detection of a property other than mass that's been linked to the invisible dark matter making up 27 percent of our universe.
Deborah Byrd
January 27, 2016
Why Planet Nine might be for real
Claims about new planets that turned out to be wrong – and why 'Planet Nine' may be different.
EarthSky Voices
January 26, 2016
And now … a real ISS transit of Saturn
A fake image ran in APOD a few days ago, but this video of an International Space Station transit across the face of Saturn looks real.
Deborah Byrd
January 26, 2016
X-ray view of Earth’s aurora
An ESA space observatory was looking for something else when it caught these X-ray images of an aurora.
Deborah Byrd
January 26, 2016
Loneliest known exoplanet and its star
The exoplanet labeled 2MASS J2126 has the widest orbit of any planet ever found. Its "year" is nearly 1 million Earth-years long.
Deborah Byrd
January 25, 2016
EarthSky News with Deborah Byrd
All the news you can fit into outer space LIVE on Slooh.com Mondays and Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. ET (1530 UTC). Or watch right here!
Deborah Byrd
January 25, 2016
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