SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled an ambitious plan Monday to fly two private space tourists around the moon in 2018. The move drew a commendation from NASA along with a clear reminder that the agency expects SpaceX to meet its other obligations while …
NASA is about to launch a spacecraft toward our sun, and you’ll be amazed at what they’re going to try to do with it. NASA has huge plans for our closest star, launching one of the most ambitious missions in years: the Solar Probe Plus.
HARPURSVILLE, NY – Waiting for birth can be a real pain in the neck – particularly when your neck is about 7-feet tall. A livestream of an upstate New York zoo’s giraffe has captivated watchers since it went up Friday, but there’s still no sign 15 …
Scientists reportedly say that the world’s only sample of metallic hydrogen, which was touted as potentially revolutionizing technology, has disappeared.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson shakes hands with State Department employees on his first day earlier this month. Photo by the State Department, courtesy of Flickr.
Earlier this month, the media was abuzz about “de-extinction,” after Harvard scientist George Church claimed we’d be able to grow a (probably non-viable) wooly mammoth embryo in the next few years.
Images, whether captured by a satellite, a scientist, an explorer, a photojournalist or an artist, enable us to record, study and reflect on our planet’s evolving state.
Pluto’s loss of planetary status in 2006 remains controversial. Now a new definition is being proposed that would restore Pluto while increasing the number of “planets” in our solar system to over 110.
The white dwarf is the burn-out core of a star that was probably similar to the Sun, the brown dwarf is only ~60 times heavier than Jupiter, and the two stars go around each other in only a bit over two hours.
The Colby Fire, a1,700-acre plus brush fire that ignited in the Angeles National Forest north of Glendora threatening homes and prompting mandatory evacuations in Glendora, Calif.
Feb. 15, 2017, will be remembered as a day that many top officials of the Chinese space establishment may want to forget. Just a month-and-a-half ago, in December 2016, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) had issued an ambitious white …
AMES, Iowa – An Iowa group has devised a strategy to keep monarch butterflies off the national endangered species list. The Des Moines Register reports (http://dmreg.
Researchers indicate that toddlers and dogs appear to have similar social intelligence up to a point. A new study indicated that toddlers and dogs might have similar social intelligence.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the discovery of massive supernova called SN 1987A, NASA pointed the lens of the Hubble Space Telescope in its direction once again, snagging an updated photo, but that’s not all the agency has to offer.
This week, Feb. 27-Mar. 3, is National Invasive Species Awareness Week, and congressional leaders are hearing from scientists and experts about the threat of invasive species to ecosystems, agriculture, industry and public health.
DENVER – Global warming could mean that mountain snow melts at a slower pace, researchers said Monday, a peculiar finding that might be bad news for the West and other regions that depend on snow for water.
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