Articles by

Jay Bennett

A rare star in a tiny galaxy preserves a record of the early universe

In an ancient dwarf galaxy on the outskirts of the Milky Way, astronomers have discovered one of...

The Trip to the Far Side of the Moon

When NASA’s new moon rocket lifts off as soon as April 1, its immense core stage will...

A strange ‘chirp’ in a brilliant stellar blast points to a magnetar

About a billion light-years away, an extraordinary stellar explosion lit up in the night sky. The blast,...

The ancient human ancestor ‘Little Foot’ gets a new face

Scientists have finally come face-to-face with an ancient human ancestor called Little Foot. A new digital reconstruction...

A mouth built for efficiency may have helped the earliest bird fly

About 150 million years ago, in a coastal lagoon in what is now southern Germany, the oldest...

Fossilized vomit reveals 290-million-year-old predator’s diet

Two hundred and ninety million years ago, in a mountain valley within the central region of the...

Neandertals mastered fire-making tools 400,000 years ago

Four hundred thousand years ago, near a water hole on grasslands bordering a forest in what is...

A foot fossil suggests a second early human relative lived alongside Lucy

In 2009, Yohannes Haile-Selassie and his team were combing the desert landscape of Burtele, a paleontological site in...