It is not a secret that Venus is Earth's nearest planetary neighbor and is the second planet from the Sun. But have you ever wondered what this planet looks like up close? First Close-Up Photo of Ve… [+3850 chars]
The sounds of sloshing lava are music to a volcanologist's ears. The reverberating belches and burps can help reveal what's going on deep within a volcano's belly. Putting an ear to the Klauea volca… [+3606 chars]
Spacecraft studying Earth's magnetosphere collectively observed how solar particles reach the upper atmosphere and create glowing auroral beads in the night sky. (Image credit: ESA/ATG medialab) A c… [+3866 chars]
ByNancy Neal Jones, NASAs Goddard Space Flight CenterJune 4, 2022 NASAs DAVINCI mission will study the origin, evolution, and present state of Venus in unprecedented detail from near the top of the … [+9985 chars]
ByAustralian National UniversityJune 4, 2022 Animation showing an artists rendition of Mars interior structure. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Spac… [+5927 chars]
The sounds of sloshing lava are music to a volcanologist's ears. The reverberating belches and burps can help reveal what's going on deep within a volcano's belly. Putting an ear to the Klauea volca… [+3606 chars]
Nasa has discovered an Earth-like planet thought to be covered in oceans of lava. Nasa's renowned James Webb Telescope is expected to give scientists a closer look at 55 Cancri e, a lava-covered pla… [+2300 chars]
Just a week after a giant asteroid, much bigger than the tallest building in the World, Burj-Khalifa, passed near Earth, there is another one that will make a close pass soon. According to NASA, a gi… [+1669 chars]
Just a week after a giant asteroid, much bigger than the tallest building in the World, Burj-Khalifa, passed near Earth, there is another one that will make a close pass soon. According to NASA, a gi… [+1669 chars]
Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, it is now almost 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth in interstellar … [+5780 chars]
A long-running NASA rover imaged twisted Red Planet rock pillars. The Curiosity rover spotted (opens in new tab) the sinewy rocks on May 15, according to raw images the mission sends down to Earth. … [+2884 chars]
To learn more, scientists turned off Avpr1a, a receptor in the brain that interacts with vasopressin.The rats were supposed to grow friendlier now that they were immune to the hormone. The consequen… [+860 chars]