NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare, which can be seen in the lower right. NASA/SDO The sun unleashed a powerful side flare late Tuesday. The eruption came from … [+2461 chars]
Long before the first birds flapped and fluttered, pterosaurs took to the skies. These leathery-winged reptiles, their bodies coated with wispy filaments paleontologists call pycnofibers, were the fi… [+6761 chars]
The moon is lining up to lead a parade of planets across the predawn sky starting April 23. In advance of an unusual alignment of the five visible planets in the solar system , four planets are … [+2721 chars]
73 with 36 posters participating, including story author Produced and directed by Corey Eisenstein. Click here for transcript. After spending three episodes looking to the heavensfirst at dark matt… [+1439 chars]
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. —It's something we have been seeing a lot more of this year as commercial flights and NASA increase the launch cadence. All eyes are on the Ax-1, the first all-private mission … [+1461 chars]
A pair of massive sunspot swarms, some large enough to devour the Earth whole, have appeared on the surface of the Sun, increasing the chance of an intense solar storm. Sunspots are dark regions of … [+7221 chars]
In 2003, archaeologists looking for evidence of the migration of modern humans from Asia to Australia stumbled across a small, fairly complete skeleton of an extinct human species on the Indonesian i… [+2644 chars]
<li>International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome. Nature409, 860921 (2001). Article ADS Google Scholar </li><li>Venter, J. C. et al. T… [+21514 chars]
Enlarge/ This illustration shows a concept for a commercial lunar lander from Astrobotic Technology. 173 with 85 posters participating For more than three years, NASA has been intensely focused on … [+4113 chars]
If not for the soupy, fast-moving atmosphere on Venus, Earth's sister planet would likely not rotate. Instead, Venus would be locked in place, always facing the sun the way the same side of the moon … [+3863 chars]
In 2003, archaeologists looking for evidence of the migration of modern humans from Asia to Australia stumbled across a small, fairly complete skeleton of an extinct human species on the Indonesian i… [+2644 chars]
A beautiful new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a pair of "fluttering wings" produced by an ongoing collision between two distant galaxies. The galactic wings are part of the VV689 sy… [+2086 chars]
