image: The change in sea level due to melting 1,000 gigatonnes of ice from Antarctica is illustrated for different scenarios.view more Credit: Douglas A. Kurtze WASHINGTON, April 21, 2022 – It is … [+3504 chars]
Closer to completing 32 years in activity, the Hubble Space Telescope never ceases to amaze us with its astoundingly impressive images Universe, This time, he brings us the record of what appears to … [+2157 chars]
Of the thousands of exoplanets we’ve discovered, most of them closely orbit red dwarf stars. Part of this is because planets with short orbital periods are easier to find, but part of this is that re… [+3274 chars]
The National Science Foundation has announced this year's winners of the prestigious Alan T. ... [+] Waterman Award, named after NSF's first director. getty The U.S. National Science Foundation ann… [+4666 chars]
We're not going to stop saying it. The James Webb Space Telescope is going to change modern astronomy for keeps, in so many ways that it will outshine even the Hubble Space Telescope in scope and de… [+3887 chars]
image: From left: Dr. Zhenpeng Qin, associate professor of mechanical engineering, mechanical engineering doctoral student Yaning Liu and Dr. Haihang Ye, research associate in mechanical engineering,… [+5082 chars]
It’s hard not to love Europa. It is far and away the most promising of Jupiter’s 79 moons, covered in a rind of water ice perhaps 30 km (18 mi.) thick. Beneath the ice lies a salty, globe-girdling oc… [+3078 chars]
When a star strays too close to a black hole, intense tides break it apart into a stream of gas. This artists animation shows some of these remains surrounding the black hole as a disk of debris. Cre… [+4689 chars]
MIT chemists have devised a new chemical reaction that allows them to synthesize a phosphorus-containing ring, using a catalyst to add phosphorus to simple organic compounds called alkenes. Their re… [+5306 chars]
Imagine living amid a pile of bacteria. CoreyFord/Getty Humanity's wide-eyed vision of settling Mars might no longer be a sci-fi fantasy. NASA projects 2030 for when the first Martian steps will be… [+3168 chars]
On February 18, 2021, NASAs Perseverance (Percy) Rover successfully landed in the dried-up lakebed known as Jezero Crater on Mars, beaming back images and video of its descent and landing to millions… [+5777 chars]
An illustration featuring mammalian herbivores (green), omnivores (purple), invertivores (yellow) and carnivores (red). Each column includes mammal species lost in the past 2.58 million years (light … [+9073 chars]
