The sun could be sending a storm to Earth over the next few days. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), our fiery star spit out a series of bursts on Sunday that ar… [+2498 chars]
In September 2020, researchers announced they had found the molecule phosphine in the atmosphere. On Earth, the molecule is linked to biological activity, aka life. Its presence on Venus was not expe… [+2591 chars]
Since it landed on Mars in 2021, NASA's Perseverance Rover has been pottering around the red planet, doing what Dad does at Costco: quietly hoovering up samples. And just like Dad does with those tas… [+1662 chars]
The doomed SOFIA observatory has made an earlier-than-planned return from New Zealand as the Boeing 747-based platform prepares to enter its final month of operations. The Stratospheric Observatory … [+2033 chars]
ByJet Propulsion LaboratoryAugust 17, 2022 Artists rendering of NASAs Europa Clipper spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The Europa Clipper spacecraft will occupy the main production facility of N… [+8316 chars]
Nation World News – In a new study, researchers found that the earliest known fruit-eating bird was an ancient bird called Jeholornis that lived 120 million years ago. Hundreds of animals living on … [+5224 chars]
Photo: Titanosaurus, by Peter E., via Flickr (cropped). How big can animals get on a given planet? Michael Denton has made a compelling case that given a habitable planet the size of Earth, humans m… [+7745 chars]
Since it landed on Mars in 2021, NASA's Perseverance Rover has been pottering around the red planet, doing what Dad does at Costco: quietly hoovering up samples. And just like Dad does with those tas… [+1662 chars]
A plume of "dark plasma" hurled from the sun will be engulfed to form a "cannibal" coronal mass ejection which will sideswipe the Earth on Thursday (Aug. 18), causing a strong G3 geomagnetic storm.… [+4407 chars]
In an effort to revolutionise wearable exoskeletons and soft robotics, a group of biomedical engineers in Australia have created a smart textile that integrates artificial "muscles." The scientist… [+1769 chars]
The soil and water of Mars are normally too harsh for crops, but research led by a then-high school sophomore finds that alfalfa plants and photosynthetic bacteria might help make Martian soil and wa… [+3870 chars]
The shifting relationships between atmospheric and oceanic climate change, air pollution, and the patterns of tropical cyclone (TC) activity have long been of interest to atmospheric scientists. TCs… [+6587 chars]
