A sunspot that "awoke from the dead" last week and erupted with a medium-size solar flare, along with a mass ejection of plasma, also lit up the northern skies in glowing lights. One stunning image o… [+2945 chars]
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, according to … [+2220 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]
It's confirmed: The hottest rock ever discovered in Earth's crust really was super-hot. The rock, a fist-sized piece of black glass, was discovered in 2011 and first reported in 2017, when scientis… [+3366 chars]
The International Astronomical Union downgraded Pluto the celestial body, not the popular Disney mascot from planetary status in 2006. (IAU). The debate had centred on whether or not the little spher… [+2405 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]
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]
At this years South by Southwest Festival, I had the pleasure of asking a panel of experts some big questions about travel to Mars. The journey will push limits of the human body and may take us to t… [+13902 chars]
From the muscle fibers that move us to the enzymes that replicate our DNA, proteins are the molecular machinery that makes life possible.Protein function heavily depends on their three-dimensional st… [+6342 chars]
The Sun emitted a significant solar flare on April 16, 2022, peaking at 11:34 p.m. EST. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly, captured an image of the event. Solar fla… [+723 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]
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]
