U.S. satellites help us predict and prepare for powerful storms, even before they arrive at our door. The data let us to monitor climate change and map the effects on coastlines, glaciers, oceans and land.
NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft is orbiting Mars to study the planet’s atmosphere and how it interacts with the solar winds. Also high on its list of mission-critical goals is not crashing into things.
This composite image shows a coronal mass ejection – a huge eruption of solar plasma – as seen from two space-based solar observatories and one ground-based instrument.
A small breeding population may have doomed the last mammoths, a confirmation of gene and population theory that could change how we think about conservation efforts today.
The burgeoning space-transportation company owned by Amazon.com chairman Jeff Bezos this week is expected to announce some customers and new initiatives, the latest step toward its long-term goal of building rockets powerful enough to penetrate …
We’ve heard it time and time again: “97 percent of scientists agree global warming is real and man-made.” Question one aspect of the global warming “consensus” and politicians and activists immediately whip out the figure.
Volkswagen management concealed the real emissions of its diesel vehicles sold in the United States and European markets and a new study conducted by MIT researchers has evaluated the impact of diesel vehicle emissions on public health.
On March 4th, an occultation event occurred, when the moon passed in front of Aldebaran star. On March 4th, the moon passed in front of Aldebaran star, the brightest star from the Taurus constellation which is known to represent the bull’s eye.
Hydrogen-spewing volcanoes could boost the temperatures of seemingly frigid alien planets enough to maintain liquid water on their surfaces, making the worlds potentially habitable to life as we know it, a new study suggests.
A team of scientists say they have discovered the oldest fossils on Earth in rocks from Quebec. Dating techniques suggest the rocks are at least 3.8bn years old, and might even be 4.3bn years old.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows spiral galaxy NCG 3274 located some 20 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Leo (The Lion).
The researchers used data on the tree composition of forests at 1,170 sites throughout the Amazon and compared it to a map of more than 3,000 known archaeological sites representing past human settlements.
Psyche and Spacecraft (Photo : NASA.gov Video/ You Tube) This is 16 Psyche discovered over a hundred years ago and this is an asteroid that is actually very unusual for our solar system.
Paleontologists at the University of Alberta explained how dinosaurs managed to walk and stand on two feet instead of four. Earlier animals are known as proto-dinosaurs initially walked and stood on four feet.
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