ByUniversity of California - BerkeleyApril 28, 2022 This artists concept depicts astronauts and human habitats on Mars. Credit: NASA Photovoltaics may be more practical for long stays on Mars Mars… [+12223 chars]
Fossils from some of the largest creatures ever to swim Earth's oceans whale-sized marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs have been found in a counterintuitive place: atop three mountains in the Swiss… [+3761 chars]
Two Russian cosmonauts will spend hours spacewalking outside the International Space Station today (April 28) and you can watch them work in the void live online. Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis… [+2116 chars]
The Event Horizon Telescope project is set to unveil what it calls "ground breaking Milky Way results" on May 12. Though details are scant about exactly what will be revealed, there's a strong possib… [+3224 chars]
The fossils of three ichthyosaurs -- giant marine reptiles that patrolled primordial oceans -- have been discovered high up in the Swiss Alps, and include the largest ever tooth found for the species… [+2985 chars]
By Joe Hupcey III and Kevin Campbell Safely landing a spacecraft anywhere on Mars is a complex, high-risk challenge. Even worse, the most scientifically interesting areas of the planet are guarded b… [+6548 chars]
Marine animals could die off at a level rivaling the biggest mass extinctions in geologic history if people dont curb greenhouse gas emissions. Thats the takeaway from a study published Thursday in … [+5425 chars]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - By the year 2300, life in the oceans faces a mass die-off rivaling the great extinctions of Earth's deep past if humanity fails to curb greenhouse gas emissions, a study said on Th… [+1937 chars]
A long-dormant underwater volcano near Antarctica has woken up, triggering a swarm of 85,000 earthquakes. The swarm, which began in August 2020 and subsided by November of that year, is the stronges… [+3561 chars]
There are cells in the body known as pluripotent stem cells that are yet to specialize in a particular biological function. These cells maintain the potential to become any of the possible cell types… [+5199 chars]
Imagine a mountaineering expedition in a wholly uncharted environment, where the hikers had the ability to generate a real-time 3D map of the terrain. NASA researchers and their industry partners hav… [+6149 chars]
If you've ever wondered what spending six months sealed in a space station is like, NASA astronaut Victor Glover has just what you need. Today (April 28), Glover hosted a live discussion from the … [+2765 chars]
