Above Santa Barbara County, the Surface Biology and Geology High-Frequency Time Series, or SHIFT, campaign collects data to understand land and aquatic ecosystems. With a plane crisscrossing the sky… [+4508 chars]
The brain is arguably the single most important organ in the human body. It controls how we move, react, think and feel, and enables us to have complex emotions and memories. The brain is composed of… [+3550 chars]
Scientists want to increase their understanding of circadian rhythms, those internal 24-hour biological clock cycles of sleeping and waking that occur in organisms, ranging from humans to plants to f… [+3978 chars]
The dust buildup on the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's InSight Mars lander is severe enough to see from orbit. You can see the red Martian regolith covering the lander, which touched down in Novem… [+2706 chars]
BBCPaleontologists uncovered a pterosaur embryo within an egg at the dig site. Some 66 million years ago, a devastating asteroid struck Earth, obliterating the dinosaurs and heralding the rise of ma… [+4912 chars]
Light on, light off — this is how one could describe the behavior of the nova, which goes by the name RS Ophiuchi (RS Oph). Every 15 years or so, a dramatic explosion occurs in the constellation of t… [+2530 chars]
#NewYork: Changing vegetation has been a key driver of global temperatures over the last 10,000 years, finds a study. Warmer temperatures brought plants - and then came even warmer temperatures, acc… [+646 chars]
The image dazzles from a computer screen in the corner of the room: six beams of red-orange light bursting from a luminous Milky Way star. But the most entrancing part of the pictureamong the public… [+8831 chars]
After a very active first quarter of 2022 which has seen an unprecedented three months for the potential to spot the northern lights across Wales, there doesn't appear to be any sign of such activity… [+1193 chars]
The South Pole-Aitken Basin on the Moon formed from a gigantic impact about 4.3 billion years ago. But that impact may have changed everything about the Moon, and explain why the lunar farside looks … [+4719 chars]
Every now and then, NASA sweeps its fans off their feet by sharing mesmerising photographs of the cosmic entities clicked by its many space telescopes such as Hubble. The agency has did it again with… [+1986 chars]
A map of the flight paths engineers were considering for the Ingenuity helicopter’s 25th flight. Ultimately “Option C” was chosen. Credit: NASA NASAs Ingenuity Mars helicopter completed its 25th fli… [+3523 chars]
