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Cassini reveals incredible vanishing 'Magic Islands' on Saturn's largest moonData captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft have enabled planetary scientists to gather the first-ever oceanographic measurements of a body of liquid on another planet.
Soyuz spacecraft returns astronauts to EarthAfter more than five months in orbit aboard the International Space Station, three astronauts – an American, a Russian, and a German – are back on Earth, courtesy of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
Points of ProgressFish in American waters are experiencing population reboundsNearly two dozen species of Pacific groundfish, including snapper, Dover sole, and dogfish, and Atlantic haddock, among others, are all making a comeback. The rebounds can be attributed to the passing of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act and the US management system.
- Rosetta space probe snaps pictures before comet landing
Europe's Rosetta space craft has sent back its first images of the side of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko that faces away from the sun. On Wednesday European scientists hope to make history by deploying a 110-kg. laboratory called Philos, from Rosetta to the comet's surface.
Did comet dust light up the Martian sky?Scientists say they are surprised at the amount of dust that fell to Mars as the Red Planet was buzzed by Comet Siding Spring last month.
What happens when a dinosaur, a crocodile, and a mammal go for a drink of water?Scientists have found tracks left by a trio of Cretaceous animals, in what is now a diamond mine in Angola.
What were dodos like?Scientists took 3-D laser scans of the only known complete skeleton of a single dodo bird, providing clues as to what this hefty relative of the pigeon was really like.
Bats can jam each other's sonar, say scientistsResearchers have discovered that a species of bat can emit a call to interfere with the echolocation of its fellow bats.
What were the first bugs like? Scientists map insect family tree.This new genealogical tree shows that the first flying insects appeared 200 million years before any other animal acquired wings.
9,000-year-old bison mummy may provide clues to species extinctionScientists are investigating the remains of an almost-perfectly preserved steppe bison that was discovered by members of the Yukagir tribe in northern Siberia.
- Orphan stars could be window into visible universe's 'hidden half'
Scientists have discovered that an odd near-infrared halo between galaxies is likely a vast population of orphan stars ripped from galaxies. The findings could help scientists account for the universe's 'missing' matter.
- What happens when you submerge GoPro in water...while in orbit?
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station had some fun with a GoPro video camera and a blob of water, learning something about how cameras perform in space along the way.
Does 'Interstellar' get the science right?Gargantua, the black hole at the center of the 'Interstellar' film plot, is a pretty accurate representation of the densely-packed spheres with unbelievable gravitational pull, according to physicist and black hole expert Charles Misner.
How does a planet form? Telescope discovery yields clues.A huge radio telescope in Chile has captured the sharpest image yet of planets forming, say scientists.
Man in 'snake-proof suit' eaten alive by anaconda. Animal cruelty?Animal rights activists are less than thrilled to learn of a Discovery Channel special that features a man being eaten and regurgitated by the world's largest species of snake.
In the underwater canyons off Northern California, a new speciesUsing small submersibles, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have discovered a new species of coral living in the submarine canyons off the coast of Sonoma County.
Ancient mammal resembled a 20-pound groundhog, say scientistsVintana sertichi, a member of an extinct branch of mammals, lived some 66 million years ago on what is today Madagascar.
Paleontologists unearth bizarre 'fish lizard,' the oldest of its kindScientists in China have discovered a remarkably well-preserved fossil of a primitive ichthyosaur, a marine reptile that first appeared some 250 million years ago.
'Odd' rodent-like skull could help crack mystery of when mammals emergedScientists have found a complete mammal skull from the time of the dinosaurs – a remarkable find that might offer a window into the dawn of mammals on Earth.
Wildebeest attack prompts calls from gnu-control advocatesA worker at a North Carolina zoo spent a week in the hospital after being thrown into the air twice by a wildebeest.
