We may know why Jupiter's Great Red Spot is red instead of white
16 November 2017
The gases in Jupiter's atmosphere should form white clouds, so why do they look red? Two teams have found different recipes for the red in the Great Red Spot
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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us
24 October 2017
Two 9.7-million-year-old fossil teeth found in Germany probably belong to a primitive primate and something like a deer, not an early human ancestor as has been reported
Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction
23 October 2017
A bird group named the Vegaviidae, which resembled modern loons and geese, is the first identified with members that lived before and after the Cretaceous extinction
Lunar volcanoes and lava lakes gave the early moon an atmosphere
6 October 2017
The same volcanic eruptions that made the dark patches we can see on the moon spewed out enough hot gas to create an atmosphere billions of years ago
Saturn’s moons could reassemble after a cosmic smash-up
26 May 2017
Any surviving debris from a collision would forge a new patchwork moon – so that’s not how Saturn got its rings
