The lightning protection system at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39B recently intercepted the most powerful lightning strike ever recorded at the spaceport. When this event occurred, the age… [+1739 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]
ByAnne Trafton, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyJune 4, 2022 MIT chemists have designed a new type of photoredox catalyst that could make it easier to incorporate light-driven reactions into co… [+7352 chars]
ByMartin Greenwald, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion CenterJune 4, 2022 Visualization of filamentary seed magnetic fields emerging from large-scale motions of unmagnetized plasma in a first-principles … [+9356 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]
A team of astronomers in Japan, for the first time, discovered a faint radio emission covering a giant galaxy as a result of achieving high imaging dynamic range. Radio emission is emitted by the gas… [+2830 chars]
An artist’s rendering of the early solar system, featuring the proto-Sun, newly forming planets, and circumstellar disk. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC) Billions of years ago, when the Sun wa… [+3203 chars]
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]
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]
A passion for the natural world drives many of our adventures. And when were not actually outside, we love delving into the discoveries about the places where we live and travel. Here are some of the… [+4832 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]
A recent study published in the journal PeerJhas found that plesiosaurs a group of saurians that lived about 210 million years ago in the late Triassic and became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous… [+3054 chars]
