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Nothing could be more apt for paleontologist Caleb M Brown than to choose the ‘Hellboy’ paper to make yet another revelation, the declaration of his love for his girlfriend, Lorna O'Brien whom he proposed for marriage at the end of this paper.

The paper published in the journal Current Biology, describing the creature with exotic frilly crown with horns and spikes, also contained a line in the acknowledgement section at the end of the article that highlighted the support of fellow paleontologist, Lorna O’Brien reading, “Lorna, will you marry me?”

The paper that intrigued several fossil hunters the world over with the discovery of the dinosaur, has been readily accepted by one, Dr O'Brien who answered ‘yes’.

NASA has released an interesting widget that lets users see the view of the sun from the distant dwarf planet, Pluto, without leaving planet Earth. The web-based widget named Pluto Time is made to calculate the amount of lighting of the sun that is visible from Pluto.

Pluto time calculates the time of day when the amount of sunlight we are getting is equivalent to the noonday glare on the Pluto’s surface.

Pluto is more than 30 times farther away from the sun than Earth is (3 billion miles vs. 93 million miles). That means Pluto gets sunlight at noon as Earthlings get on a clear day around dusk or dawn.

The launch of Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) has been postponed by NASA due to unstable wind conditions near the surface. According to the agency, the unfavorable weather would prevent the launch of the balloon.

The LDSD has been designed to ferry a team of astronauts down to the surface of Mars on a future human mission to the Red Planet. The 7,000-pound saucer has been equipped with an inflatable, doughnut-shaped shield as well as a super-strong parachute that should slow the LDSD down from supersonic speeds during descent.

The test involves a high-altitude balloon, which would carry the LDSD in the air from the US Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.

This week, two co-workers came across a huge deep-sea creature that was washed up on the beach of Catalina Island.

According to Amy Catalano, a conservation coordinator for the nonprofit Catalina Island Conservancy and among the people who found the oarfish on the beach, the fish has extraordinarily long ovaries and was reported to have been washed ashore just minutes before it was found.

In June, no information regarding Mars will be returned for 14 days as spacecraft on the planet will have no contact with Earth during this period.

This will start happening since it appears that Mars is moving behind the sun, when observed from Earth. This is an alignment, which is called a Mars solar conjunction. It happens nearly once every 26 months as the two planets move in their relative orbits.

At present, The Maven, Odyssey, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft are orbiting above Mars and NASA also has a pair of spacecrafts on the surface - Curiosity and Opportunity. The space agency will not be able to contact these five vehicles, during this two-week period.

A new US government research has come up with a new twist in highly-concerning topic, global warming. As per them, global warming has not undergone any hiatus in the last 15 years.

Researchers from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center have carried out the study. As per them, global warming rate is actually on rise than reported two ago in the most recent IPCC report.