A new study has illustrated that the imbalance of energy on Earth is considered the most crucial metric to gauge the size and impacts of climate change. Image Credit: IOP Publishing. The study was … [+2630 chars]
Powerful radio pulses originating deep in the cosmos can be used to study hidden pools of gas cocooning nearby galaxies, according to a new study appearing in the journal Nature Astronomy. So-called… [+4389 chars]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Tuesday announced that it has lost contact with a $32.7 million Capstone spacecraft headed to the moon to test out a lopsided lunar orbit. … [+1884 chars]
An international research team has observed signs of rotation in a galaxy that existed only 500 million years after the Big Bang, easily the earliest galaxy ever observed that shows a signature of ro… [+2467 chars]
Paris, the capital of France, is awash with history; it's home to the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Notre-Dame Cathedral and the Louvre , the world's most-visited museum (opens in new tab). Yet,… [+7196 chars]
If an asteroid threat emerged, Earth would need to be ready. Scientists are continually working to give the planet the best range of defensive strategies. One day we might scan the skies and see it … [+6494 chars]
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope team has released a new edition in the Hubble Focus e-book series, called "Hubble Focus: Strange New Worlds." This e-book highlights the mission's recent discoveries abo… [+5600 chars]
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the sparkling globular cluster NGC 6569 in the constellation Sagittarius. Hubble explored the heart of this cluster with both its Wide Fie… [+1635 chars]
Seen are six views of the Nili Fossae region of Mars captured by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging ... [+] Spectrometer for Mars, or CRISM, one of the instruments aboard NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Or… [+3156 chars]
A mass extinction event about 202 million years ago that wiped out big reptiles of the time, coinciding with a series of sudden global chills, paved the way for dinosaurs to take over the planet, a n… [+5089 chars]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A satellite the size of a microwave oven successfully broke free from its orbit around Earth on Monday and is headed toward the moon, the latest step in NASA's plan to lan… [+2791 chars]
Article body copy This article was originally published in bioGraphic, an independent magazine about nature and conservation powered by the California Academy of Sciences. The nautilus inhabited t… [+26172 chars]
