A slow-moving central section of the 800-mile San Andreas Fault line in California could play host to much larger earthquakes than previously thought, according to a new study. Situated between Park… [+12360 chars]
Aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei squeezes in time to unwind with a book. Vande Hei made it into record books on Tuesday, March 15, 2022, breaking the record for t… [+5648 chars]
NASAs Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will keep making trips at least through September. The tiny chopper hitched a ride to Mars on the Perseverance Rover in the summer of 2020 and landed on the planets… [+2003 chars]
A challenge in materials design is that in both natural and manmade materials, volume sometimes decreases, or increases, with increasing temperature. While there are mechanical explanations for this … [+5517 chars]
A new Hubble Space Telescope clearly captures the heart of a distant galaxy structured much like our own. The new image shows the "eye" of a galaxy called NGC 1097, which is located 48 million light… [+1978 chars]
A new study based on NASA and ESA satellite data shows that Arctic sea ice is thinning at a "frightening rate." Measuring the ice via satellites each month from 2018 to 2021, polar scientists Sahra … [+2595 chars]
A wild new theory suggests there may be another "anti-universe," running backward in time prior to the Big Bang. The idea assumes that the early universe was small, hot and dense — and so uniform th… [+5744 chars]
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What we thought were three confirmed exoplanets have just been knocked off their perch and a fourth one is under serious doubt. According to a new analysis using revised characteristics, the objects… [+4724 chars]
An artists impression of an asteroid approaching Earth. (Image credit: Shutterstock) An asteroid as big as a refrigerator recently smashed into Earth 's atmosphere just hours after it was first d… [+3769 chars]
Aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei squeezes in time to unwind with a book. Vande Hei made it into record books on Tuesday, March 15, 2022, breaking the record for t… [+5648 chars]
