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Isaac Schultz
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Science writer at Gizmodo, previously of Atlas Obscura. A native New Yorker. Mostly covering ancient things (on Earth and beyond) and masses extremely big or incredibly small.
The newly described species can grow to one and a half feet long.
The House of the Lararium contains preserved fabrics, tableware, and other objects of daily life.
Humans can't see infrared light, so what makes Webb Space Telescope images so dazzling?
A pile of mammoth bones offers evidence that people were living in the region as early as 37,000 years ago.
The Giant Magellan Telescope will have four times the spatial resolution of the Webb telescope when it is finally…
Lensing of the cosmic microwave background indicates 12-billion-year-old galaxies had dark matter.
Unlike its living cousin, Agriarctos nikolovi probably didn’t eat bamboo.
The Hanseatic wreck contains 150 barrels of quicklime, a common building material at the time.
The canyon system, much larger than Earth's Grand Canyon, probably formed from the drifting of tectonic plates.
A predicted cousin of Hawking radiation may be coming to a tabletop near you.
The telescope is likely to deal with plenty more space debris during its tenure.
Shots of the gas giant and its moons helped test the new spacecraft’s instruments.
Researchers think it came from an especially intense pulsar or magnetar.
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NASA has released stunning debut photos from the new orbital observatory.
Black Beauty was found in 2011, but its true origin was a mystery until now.
Here's the first batch of images from the advanced telescope, featuring an exoplanet, nebulae, and more.
The long-awaited image is a luminous look at ancient galaxies magnified by warped spacetime.
NASA will release the rest of this first batch of images tomorrow morning.
The finding could add credence to the 'RNA world' hypothesis about the origin of life on Earth.