As the world becomes increasingly hot, fresh and clean water is an increasingly hot commodity. Agricultural demand, climate change, pollution, and other factors are converging to make water scarcity … [+4976 chars]
American scientists plan to crack open a salt crystal with liquid inside that may contain still-living microorganisms from 830 million years ago, in research that could provide insight into life on o… [+2545 chars]
Without a question of doubt, the term "meteor shower" is a misnomer. It creates a mental picture of shooting stars pouring out of the sky like water from a sprinkler, but that is simply not the case.… [+12379 chars]
For tens of thousands of years, Aboriginal Australians have created some of the world's most striking artworks. Today their work continues long lines of ancestral traditions, stories of the past and … [+4846 chars]
Air Date: Week of May 27, 2022 stream/download this segment as an MP3 file A panoramic view of Perseverances landing site on February 18, 2021. (Photo: NASA, Public Domain) The first successful Ma… [+4917 chars]
Boeings CST-100 Starliner spacecraft lands at White Sands Missile Ranges Space Harbor, Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in New Mexico. Boeings Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) is Starliners second uncrewed flig… [+2091 chars]
A super-Earth covered in oceans of lava and another exoplanet that is completely airless have been chosen as the first targets of NASA's James Webb Telescope. One of the planets, known as 55 Cancri… [+9311 chars]
Despite nothing escaping blackholes, other than jets of energy, images can now be produced allowing a better understanding of whats going on with the one-way monsters that gobble up everything that g… [+770 chars]
The May 2022 Super Flower Blood Moon lunar eclipse shines with the aurora above the South Pole Telescope in Antarctica on May 15, 2022 in this photo by astronomer Aman Chokshi. (Image credit: Aman Ch… [+2802 chars]
Somewhere out in the cosmos, there's the physics equivalent of a unicorn. Catching even a glimpse of this oddity that looks like the isolated tip of a magnet would be like a beacon in the night, poin… [+4151 chars]
By Leah Crane Diffractive solar sails depicted in a conceptual illustration MacKenzi Martin Funding of $2 million has gone to researchers developing a new type of solar sail as part of NASAs Innov… [+1952 chars]
The early solar system was more chaotic than previously thought, according to a new, more precise reconstruction of the early history of several asteroids. Before the Earth and other planets formed,… [+4729 chars]
