A dead pilot whale lay on a beach at Farewell Spit in New Zealand on Saturday as volunteers tried to help the stranded whales that still had a chance of surviving.
Chemicals banned in the 1970s have been found in the deepest reaches of the Pacific Ocean, a new study shows. Scientists were surprised by the relatively high concentrations of pollutants like PCBs and PBDEs in deep sea ecosystems.
An image from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey of galaxy NGC 7610, where researchers recently found a newborn supernova. Credit: iPTF/Palomar Observatory/Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
India’s air now rivals China’s as the world’s deadliest, according to a new study published Tuesday amid warnings that efforts to curb pollution from coal won’t yield results any time soon.
Nine Merlin engines ignited and throttled up to nearly 2 million pounds of thrust Sunday during a brief hold-down firing of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, sending a plume of smoke out of the flame trench at Kennedy Space Center’s historic launch pad 39A as …
They observe changes in the atmosphere like astronomers study the stars, analyzing everything from air pressure to water vapor and poring over computer models to arrive at a forecast.
Fishermen have wondered about the “cock-eyed” squid’s mismatched eyes for more than a hundred years. Its bulging left eye is big and yellow, whereas the right eye is much smaller and clear.
PSLV C 17 People in a field watch as an Indian communication satellite GSAT-12 onboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV C-17 blasts off from Sriharikota in eastern India, July 15, 2011.
NASA’s top three choices to land its Mars 2020 rover are Northeast Syrtis, Jezero crater and Columbia Hills. Credit: NASA. NASA has selected three potential landing sites for the upcoming Mars 2020 rover: an ancient lake, a past volcanic hotbed and an …
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope may be the most well-known instrument helping astronomers in their hunt for alien planets, but it is far from the only one.
“The Earth gets hit by 50 tonnes of meteorites a day. That’s more than most people think. Normally they are small little grains and burn up but once in a while they are big rocks,” says astronaut Chris Hadfield, who launched himself to stardom by …
On Friday, February 10th, NASA announced that a team of 21 scientists had delivered their first report on a lander mission to explore the possibility of life on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.
An international team of astronomers released the largest-ever compilation of exoplanet-detecting observations made using a technique called the radial velocity method.
NASA will continue tapping the private sector to fund space exploration efforts under President Trump, marking a continuation in policy that first began under former president Barack Obama.
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Arctic temperatures have finally started to cool off after yet another winter heat wave stunted sea ice growth over the weekend. The repeated bouts of warm weather this season have stunned even seasoned polar researchers, and could push the Arctic to a …
In views from the International Space Station, a mysterious set of electrical discharges shine above a roiling thunderstorm in Earth’s upper atmosphere.
In a scientific first, researchers have developed a mathematical equation to capture mankind’s impact on Earth – finding that humans are causing the climate to change 170 times faster than natural forces.
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