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In this undated photo provided by Oxford University Museum of Natural History and the University of Birmingham on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025, a view of a dinosaur footprint uncovered on five extensive trackways that formed part of a “dinosaur highway,” found at Dewars Farm Quarry, in Oxfordshire, England.

‘Dinosaur highway’ tracks dating back 166 million years are discovered in England

In this undated photo provided by Oxford University Museum of Natural History and the University of Birmingham on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025, a view of a dinosaur footprint uncovered on five extensive trackways that formed part of a “dinosaur highway,” found at Dewars Farm Quarry, in Oxfordshire, England.

January 2, 2025, 9:49am Life

A worker digging up clay in a southern England limestone quarry noticed unusual bumps that led to the discovery of a “dinosaur highway” and nearly 200 tracks that date back 166 million years, researchers said Thursday. Read story

This 1825 etching provided by the Library of Congress shows an astronomical chart depicting Bootes the Ploughman holding a spear, a sickle, and two dogs, Asterion and Chara, on leashes, a quadrant, and the hair of Berenice forming the constellations.

How to catch the Quadrantids, the first meteor shower of 2025

This 1825 etching provided by the Library of Congress shows an astronomical chart depicting Bootes the Ploughman holding a spear, a sickle, and two dogs, Asterion and Chara, on leashes, a quadrant, and the hair of Berenice forming the constellations.

December 31, 2024, 7:58am Life

When the Quadrantid meteor shower peaks on Friday, it will be the year’s first chance to see fireballs in the sky. Read story

Tour ice age mammoth bone dig site just outside Tri-Cities. 2025 tickets going on sale

December 31, 2024, 7:42am Life

Tickets go on sale Jan. 2 for the 2025 spring tours of the Coyote Canyon Mammoth Site, where the bones of an ice age mammoth are being painstakingly unearthed within a couple of miles of the Tri-Cities. Read story

The Cape Sable seaside sparrow in the hand of Stuart Pim, an ornithologist who is studying the birds that number about 2,500 in Everglades National Park in Florida on May 22, 1996.

Could captive breeding save Florida bird?

The Cape Sable seaside sparrow in the hand of Stuart Pim, an ornithologist who is studying the birds that number about 2,500 in Everglades National Park in Florida on May 22, 1996.

December 31, 2024, 5:56am Life

South Florida water managers have approved a breeding program for an endangered Everglades sparrow that for decades has fluttered at the center of debate over how to move water into parched marshes to restore the wetlands. Read story

FILE - The northern lights flare in the sky over a farmhouse, May 10, 2024, in Brunswick, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F.

Northern lights could be visible in upper fringes of the U.S., including Washington, this New Year’s Eve

FILE - The northern lights flare in the sky over a farmhouse, May 10, 2024, in Brunswick, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F.

December 30, 2024, 10:32am Latest News

There's a chance solar storms may bring northern lights to several northern U.S states just in time for the new year. Read story

Riah Evin, a biologist at the California Academy of Sciences’ Steinhart Aquarium, propagates endangered Sunflower Sea Stars on Nov. 20 in San Francisco.

How do you ‘grow’ an endangered starfish? Bay Area scientists are finding out

Riah Evin, a biologist at the California Academy of Sciences’ Steinhart Aquarium, propagates endangered Sunflower Sea Stars on Nov. 20 in San Francisco.

December 30, 2024, 6:04am Life

For the last decade, California’s offshore seafloors have been missing a massive, colorful predator that keeps kelp-munching sea urchins in check. Read story

FILE - This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. It's designed to take solar punishment like never before, thanks to its revolutionary heat shield that's capable of withstanding 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit (1,370 degrees Celsius).

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survives close brush with the sun’s scorching surface

FILE - This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. It's designed to take solar punishment like never before, thanks to its revolutionary heat shield that's capable of withstanding 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit (1,370 degrees Celsius).

December 27, 2024, 10:43am Life

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has successfully made the closest approach to the sun, the space agency confirmed Friday. Read story

This April 25, 2007, image shows a part of the rings of the planet Saturn, as seen from the Cassini spacecraft.

Study: Rings could be as old as Saturn

This April 25, 2007, image shows a part of the rings of the planet Saturn, as seen from the Cassini spacecraft.

December 24, 2024, 6:05am Life

New research suggests that Saturn’s rings may be older than they look — possibly as old as the planet. Read story

Scientists find stars orbiting each other

December 24, 2024, 6:03am Life

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Read story

New York State Museum and State University of New York Orange staff unearth a complete well-preserved mastodon jaw, as well as a piece of a toe bone and a rib fragment, that were found protruding from the topsoil in the backyard of a residence near Scotchtown, NY.

Scientists hail discovery of adult mastodon jaw in upstate New York

New York State Museum and State University of New York Orange staff unearth a complete well-preserved mastodon jaw, as well as a piece of a toe bone and a rib fragment, that were found protruding from the topsoil in the backyard of a residence near Scotchtown, NY.

December 24, 2024, 5:56am Life

Scholars are hailing the discovery of a fossilized mastodon jaw discovered by a man who spotted two giant teeth while gardening at his upstate New York home this year. Read story