As the largest predatory fish on Earth, great white sharks are already impressive, armed with up to 300 serrated teeth and weighing up to 5,000 pounds. Now, new research adds more intrigue to the oce… [+6532 chars]
ByFrontiersJuly 8, 2022 New research finds that molecular clouds are loaded with key precursors for life on Earth. This image is of the Pigtail Molecular Cloud. Credit: Keio University, NAOJ Key pr… [+8623 chars]
Extremely rare footage of a squid mom carrying a gelatinous string of glimmering pearl-like eggs in her arms has been captured in the dark ocean depths off the coast of California. Researchers from… [+2594 chars]
The Webb telescopes extraordinarily large primary mirror gives it extraordinary capabilities but also leaves it vulnerable to hits from space dust.Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn As NASAs James Webb Space T… [+5409 chars]
The reign of the dinosaurs on Earth was a lengthy one. For about 165 million years, they dominated every continent, and today they have conquered our imaginations. But they were far from the only ani… [+10107 chars]
Taking out the trash on the International Space Station just got much easier. Nanoracks, a private space company based in Houston, successfully tested a new technology that will streamline the proce… [+4616 chars]
NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) program and prime launch processing contractor Jacobs completed the Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) countdown demonstration test for Artemis 1 at the Kennedy Space C… [+20968 chars]
We can model the motions of planets in the Solar System quite accurately using Newton's laws of physics. But in the early 1970s, scientists noticed that this didn't work fordisk galaxiesstars at thei… [+7039 chars]
Look up at the waxing gibbous with a pair of binoculars or a small telescope on Saturday (July 9) and enjoy the surface light effect known as the "Golden Handle". This interesting lunar feature appe… [+2288 chars]
ByLonnie Shekhtman, NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterJuly 8, 2022 NASAs OSIRIS-REx spacecraft leaving the surface of asteroid Bennu after collecting a sample. Credit: NASAs Goddard Space Flight Cen… [+8965 chars]
"The surface was soft and flowed away like a fluid." Big Surprise NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's original mission was to fly to the asteroid Bennu, where it was mean to briefly land on the body's p… [+2232 chars]
