If you took a photo of our Milky Way Galaxy today from a distance, it would show a spiral galaxy with a bright, central bar of dense star populations. The Sun would be located outside this bar near one of the spiral arms composed of stars and interstellar dust; beyond the visible galaxy would be a

While cataloging hundreds of freshwater mussel shells collected at the end of the 19th century by the Dutch anatomist and geologist Eugene Dubois – the discoverer of Java man, the first known fossil of Homo erectus – on the banks of the Bengawan Solo river in East Java, Prof Roebroeks and his

Comet Siding Spring traveled from the most distant region of our Solar System, the Oort Cloud. It made a close approach to Mars on October 19, 2014, within about 139,500 km of the planet. Dust from the comet impacted Mars and was vaporized high in the atmosphere, producing what was likely an

The fossil, named Cartorhynchus lenticarpus, represents a missing stage in the evolution of ichthyosaurs. Until now, there were no fossils marking their transition from land to sea. “But now we have this fossil showing the transition. There’s nothing that prevents it from coming onto land,” said