Scratches and grooves on the Martian surface look like a huge 'fingernail' was gouging out regolith on the Red Planet, but there's a volcanic origin to these features. Specifically, scientists belie… [+2943 chars]
Sending humans virtually anywhere in space beyond the Moon pushes logistics of health, food, and psychology to limits we're only just beginning to grasp. A staple solution to these problems in sci… [+4505 chars]
Rocket Lab will take a shot a making history today with its attempt to catch a spent booster midair with a helicopter. This (mostly) unprecedented technique is apparently the safest and most efficien… [+2705 chars]
Black turban snails are small sea snails that are tasty prey for crabs. Failed crab attacks leave scars on a snail shell. By analyzing the rate of scarring and the size of the snail at the time of at… [+3646 chars]
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have detected two rocky alien worlds orbiting a nearby M dwarf star known as HD 260655. The newly found exoplanets are larger an… [+3464 chars]
First, we get to see the latter part of a lunar eclipse on May 15. The eclipsed moon will rise at 20:52 in the ESE and climb to about 7 degrees above the SE horizon by 21:55 at which time the moon wi… [+3320 chars]
Biologists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and their collaborators have discovered an aberrant protein that's deadly to bacteria. In a paper just published in the jo… [+7001 chars]
Alas, NASAs SOFIA flying telescope will stop operations later in 2022, after the agency and its partners re-examined the program. But why? Photo: Michael Rausch There are some aircraft that are ext… [+3599 chars]
Whitehead Institute Member Sebastian Lourido and his lab members study the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. The parasite causes the disease toxoplasmosis, which can be dangerous for pregnant or immunocomp… [+7445 chars]
A Falcon 9 spacecraft lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. About 8.5 minutes later, the rocket's first stage returned to Earth and landed on the SpaceX drone ship, which was … [+430 chars]
Theres nothing wrong with sticking to a standard glute bridge as a way to work your lower body. But if youre looking to mix things up or want to hit a whole new set of muscles thats when you might wa… [+7939 chars]
Early risers take note: Something beautiful has been happening in the east in the wee hours of the morning, and it's about to get even better. Over the past month, four planets Saturn, Mars, Venus a… [+3551 chars]
