George Dvorsky's posts

An asteroid with a small chance of hitting Earth in 2068 will swing past our planet in the coming days, providing a…

Behold A-74, an enormous iceberg that broke away from the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica late last month. Here’s what…

The third high-altitude test of a SpaceX Starship prototype is scheduled for Wednesday. You can watch the launch…

Imagine the route you typically take to the grocery store. Now imagine the many identifiable landmarks that exist…

Archaeologists may have finally figured out how a 5,300-year-old skull ended up on the ledge of a deep vertical cave…

A formation famous for producing T. rex fossils has now yielded the oldest evidence of primates in the fossil…

The Perseverance rover, along with several components used during the recent landing, have been imaged from space.

A recent flyby of Venus by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has resulted in an unexpectedly good image of the scorched…

Not since 1923 have scientists gazed upon the Australian cloaked bee. That is, until recently when scientists located…

NASA’s Perseverance rover has been on Mars for a full week, and the images are starting to pour in. Here are our…

Large meat-eating dinosaurs took on the role of multiple species while growing up, resulting in a shocking lack of…

The Red Planet’s two tiny moons—Phobos and Deimos—could have formed after an ancient collision, according to new…

A newly compiled 3D map has revealed more than 1 million binary star pairs located within 3,000 light years of…

A fragment of 10,000-year-old dog bone found along the Alaskan coast could be the oldest evidence of domesticated…

Archaeologists have discovered a 17,300-year-old painting of a kangaroo at a rock shelter in Western Australia,…

A tiny ear bone belonging to a cave bear that died some 360,000 years ago has yielded the oldest genome not sourced…

NASA has released stunning footage of the Perseverance rover landing on Mars, in what is a seminal achievement for…

NASA has a new toy to play with on Mars, but the space agency has some important work to do before the Perseverance r…

NASA released a stunning photo of yesterday’s historic landing, showing the Perseverance rover being lowered to the…

Elizabeth Ann is the first clone of a black-footed ferret, but more importantly, she’s the first endangered species…