Watkins’ first spaceflight made her the first black woman to fly an extended mission in space by accident. But it also shows how NASA approaches human spaceflight as the agency works on a manned retu… [+3338 chars]
On January 15, the volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai devastated the nation of Tonga. The eruption triggered tsunamis as far afield as the Caribbean and generated atmospheric waves that travelled arou… [+8777 chars]
Around 20,000 years ago, the world was so frigid that massive glaciers sucked up enough water to lower sea levels by 400 feet. As the sea pulled back, newly exposed land froze to form permafrost, a m… [+7744 chars]
Parrots are famous for their remarkable cognitive abilities and exceptionally long lifespans. Now, a study led by Max Planck researchers has shown that one of these traits has likely been caused by t… [+5591 chars]
Nasas first private space tourism mission will carry Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria, Canadian investor and philanthropist Mark Pathy, American entrepreneur Larry Connor, and former Israeli Air Force… [+2412 chars]
The Milky Way is older than astronomers thought, or part of it is. A newly-published study shows that part of the disk is two billion years older than we thought. The region, called the thick disk, … [+8608 chars]
It takes expensive tools to learn about the universe, but projects like the Very Large Array for radio astronomy in New Mexico and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which orbits Earth, have pushed scien… [+7267 chars]
Classical helioseismology, which relies on acoustic waves, has been successfully applied to image the Sun’s interior rotation and structure. However, acoustic waves are insensitive to parameters such… [+1973 chars]
