The MAVEN spacecraft – short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN – has been orbitng Mars for more than two years, monitoring the Red Planet’s atmosphere.
Two skulls found in China shed light on the ancient humans who inhabited the region before our own species arrived. We know that Europe and western Asia was dominated by the Neanderthals before Homo sapiens displaced them.
The last woolly mammoths to walk the Earth were so wracked with genetic disease that they lost their sense of smell, shunned company, and had a strange shiny coat.
A lot will have to go right for SpaceX to meet its ambitious moon-mission timetable, experts say. On Monday (Feb. 27), SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk announced that the company plans to launch two paying customers on a weeklong trip around the …
The paper, published on March 2 in Science, finds that many domesticated trees and palms are five times more likely to be over-represented in the Amazon than are non-domesticated ones.
Now you can code like an astronomer. NASA released its software catalog for 2017-2018 on Thursday and it is chock full of cool app, code libraries and utility programs that have been made available to the public, free of charge.
If you were wondering how many Americans think coal-fired power plants should cap emissions, how much they worry about climate change or even how often they talk about it, well, there’s a map for that.
This artist’s concept appeared on the Feb. 23, 2017 cover of the journal Nature announcing that the TRAPPIST-1 star, an ultra-cool dwarf, has seven Earth-size planets orbiting it.
Temperatures on the Antarctic continent reached a record-breaking high of 63.5 degrees Fahrenheit in 2015, according to a new report of balmy records for the bottom of the world.
Against the backdrop of a shiny blue Earth, two Expedition 51 crewmembers used their hands and a robotic arm to perform maintenance on the International Space Station, and a new video captured a stunning astronaut’s-eye view of the spacewalk.
In September 2015, the German Volkswagen Group, the world’s largest car producer, admitted to having installed “defeat devices” in 11 million diesel cars sold worldwide between 2008 and 2015.
Abhurite is one of the newly classified anthropogenic minerals. Found on the not-so-happy shipwreck of the SS Cheerful. Minerals have to meet certain criteria before they’re deemed deserving of the name.
Martian winds shaped the mountain that stands tall in the middle of the Red Planet’s vast Gale Crater, new observations from NASA’s Curiosity rover suggest.
Wild African elephants sleep for the shortest time of any mammal, according to a study. Scientists tracked two elephants in Botswana to find out more about the animals’ natural sleep patterns.
A dinosaur that lived 160 million years ago had drumstick-shaped legs much like living birds, according to palaeontologists. The feathered dinosaur also had bird-like arms similar to wings.
This artist’s concept shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about the planets’ diameters, masses, and distances from the host star.
Rare ‘Ring Of Fire’ Solar Eclipse To Grace African Skies (Photo : GeoBeats News/ You Tube) If you love gazing at the sky and are in certain parts of Africa on September 1, the sun and moon have a very special treat for you.
AKRON, Ohio — The Trump administration wants NASA to fire up the thrusters on its space program. It has directed the agency to study the feasibility of adding astronauts to a mission to orbit the moon, planned for late next year.
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) on Thursday released a spectacular new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1055. The NCG 1055 is an older sister of our Milky Way, and is located in the constellation of Cetus (known as The Sea Monster), around 55 …
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