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Oldest dinosaur nursery includes eggs containing embryosThe newly unearthed clutches of eggs, many with embryos inside, belonged to a plant-eating dinosaur, the predecessor of the largest animals to ever walk the Earth, long-necked sauropods such as Brachiosaurus.
Space station dwellers safe from massive radiation stormNASA scientists also routinely monitor space weather conditions in order to protect astronauts and hardware in orbit from harmful radiation, and today's solar storm is no exception, agency officials said.
After solar flare, massive storm speeds EarthwardA solar flare Sunday triggered an outburst of solar material that should hit Earth Tuesday. The disturbance could lead to voltage swings on some power lines, as well as stronger northern lights.
Massive eruption on sun to shower Earth with radiationA barrage of charged particles triggered by this morning's solar flare is expected to hit Earth tomorrow at around 9 a.m. EST.
Russian probe crash sparks conspiracy theories, confusionRussia's Phobos-Grunt space probesuffered a debilitating malfunction shortly after its November 2011 launch, which stranded it in low-Earth orbit for more than two months before it succumbed to gravitational forces and plummeted through the atmosphere on Jan. 15.
Enormous solar outburst could dazzle your weekendAuroras may dazzle more people than usual this weekend as Earth receives a glancing blow from an enormous solar outburst that erupted on Jan. 19.
Northern lights: Huge solar flare may trigger Saturday night showNorthern lights show this weekend? A big solar plasma wave is heading toward Earth, and may create Northern lights or aurora borealis display by Saturday night.
Comet's fiery plunge may tell us how planets formFor the first time, scientists have caught a glimpse of a comet's final minutes before it was vaporized by the sun.聽The comet was flying at about 1.4 million miles an hour.
Ancient tulip-like creature had bizarre gutThe animal was a filter feeder, with a tulip-shaped body and a stem that anchored it to the seafloor.
Dracula-esque monkey long thought vanished reappearsA team set up camera traps in Borneo in June, hoping to captures images of wildlife known to congregate at several mineral salt licks but the聽pictures that came back caught them all by surprise: groups of聽monkeys聽none had ever seen.
Forecast: Seattle weather could stay eventful in next three monthsForecasters looking at temperature and precipitation trends are calling for cooler and wetter conditions than normal in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle weather this week has consisted of snow and ice storms.
NASA still not hiding aliens: Triangular 'UFO' debunkedFootage captured by NASA shows Venus, Earth and, on the opposite side of the field-of-view, a聽briefly聽mysterious triangular object headed our way.
Custom-mutated bacteria converts seaweed to fuelBacteria have been genetically engineered to break down a previously inaccessible sugar in seaweed, called alginate.
Rare turtle back in the wild with fancy new satellite tracking deviceOnly about 200 Southern River terrapins still exist in the wild, and on Monday one of them plodded into the Sre Ambel River in Cambodia wearing a satellite tag as a crowd of officials and well-wishers cheered it on.
Mysterious invisible galaxy may be composed of dark matterThough telescopes can't spot the dwarf galaxy, scientists detected its presence through the tiny distortions its gravity causes to light that passes it by.
Dwarf galaxies: breakthrough in bid to find 'fossils' of early universeA team of astronomers reports that it has detected the most distant dwarf galaxy yet discovered orbiting an enormous elliptical galaxy some 10 billion light-years away.
Meteorites in Morocco confirmed to be Martian in originThe meteorites fell in the Moroccan desert in July and were recovered a few months later.
Will Earth no longer define time? Leap second could be abolished.The rotation of the Earth has defined time for as long as time has been kept, but keeping up with all of Earth's little quirks by adding and subtracting an occasional leap second is getting tiring. Timekeepers could vote Thursday to rely solely on atomic clocks.聽
NASA's twin moon probes renamed by children: 'Ebb' & 'Flow'The probes'聽new names were offered by fourth grade students in Bozeman, Mont., who were chosen as the winners of NASA's naming contest.
Russia's dead Mars probe crashed in unknown locationSo far, no eyewitness accounts of the Phobos-Grunt re-entry have surfaced, and there have been no verified sightings of any pieces of the 14.5-ton spacecraft that may have survived.
