Aug. 16 (UPI) -- NASA plans to roll out its Space Launch System rocket to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday night, ahead of its premiere flight later this month. The uncre… [+1489 chars]
By combining seawater data from clam shells and thousands of climate simulations, researchers find that 900 years of cooling in the Gulf of Maine suddenly reversed in the late 1800s. Why did that ha… [+5056 chars]
When early humans discovered how to harness fire, they were able to push back against the nightly darkness that enveloped them. With the invention and widespread adoption of electricity, it became ea… [+7018 chars]
Sea snails – the picture shows a pteropod – play an important role in the marine food web. They are especially sensitive to ocean warming and acidification. © Charlotte Havermans When marine heatwav… [+5518 chars]
Scientists explain how NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will investigate exoplanet clouds. Clouds of vaporized rock, and perhaps even glittering gems, could fill the skies of some distant worlds. A… [+3402 chars]
Scientists have confirmed that last year, for the first time in the lab, they achieved a fusion reaction that self-perpetuates (instead of fizzling out) bringing us closer to replicating the chemical… [+3535 chars]
This LASCO C2 image, taken 8 January 2002, shows a widely spreading coronal mass ejection (CME) as ... [+] it blasts more than a billion tons of matter out into space at millions of kilometers per ho… [+2780 chars]
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy, who goes by cosmic_background on Instagram, captured an unreal photo of Saturn over the weekend. McCarthy says he captured the image from the roof of a parking gara… [+1930 chars]
ESOs Very Large Telescope (VLT) has imaged the result of a spectacular cosmic collision the galaxy NGC 7727. This giant was born from the merger of two galaxies, an event that started around a billio… [+3418 chars]
At a time when astronomers around the world are reveling in new views of the distant cosmos, an experiment on the International Space Station has given Cornell researchers fresh insight into somethin… [+5257 chars]
Dr. David Johnson, an ecologist at William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science, has spent more than 20 years in salt marshes, at sites all along the U.S. East and Gulf coasts. But while… [+5612 chars]
The Earth is the only planet in the solar system where liquid water exists on the surface. Our planet is fortunate enough to orbit in the suns habitable zone, which allows for the existence of condit… [+2853 chars]
