President Trump just signed a bill authorizing $19.5 billion in funding for NASA – the first such authorization bill for the space agency in seven years.
A routine check of the aluminum wheels on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has found two small breaks on the rover’s left middle wheel—the latest sign of wear and tear as the rover continues its journey, now approaching the 10-mile (16 kilometer) mark.
Scientists have discovered the fossil remains of a 430-million-year-old crustacean previously unknown to science – a proto-shrimp that they’re naming in honor of British naturalist and television personality David Attenborough.
The rusty patched bumblebee’s path to the endangered list was as up and down as the way it flies. After a years-long run-up to a determination early this year that it was eligible for the list, and a month-long delay for a newly required review by the …
It was 3 a.m., and astronomer Maurizio Pajola had been up for hours looking through images taken by the Rosetta spacecraft of its dumpy, duck-shaped comet.
The SpaceX Dragon capsule is off loaded from the support ship NRC Quest in the Port of Los Angles early Monday morning March 20, 2017 after returning from a resupply mission to the International Space Station.
This digital-image mosaic of Mars’ Tharsis plateau shows the extinct volcano Arsia Mons. It was assembled from images that the Viking 1 Orbiter took during its 1976 to 1980 working life at Mars.
Millennials have already lost so much: A relatively secure housing market, the hope of stable careers, and an Earth that wasn’t completely littered with the mistakes of Baby Boomers.
If you’re a regular reader of New Atlas, then you know that scientists enjoy putting things on chips. We’ve reported on a lung on a chip, a placenta on a chip, a kidney on a chip, and a heart on a chip – and that was in 2016 alone.
In the atmosphere, the seas and around the poles, climate change is reaching disturbing new levels across the Earth. That’s according to a detailed global analysis from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
A new paper suggests that a giant impact set off a process that’s still going. John Timmer – Mar 21, 2017 6:51 pm UTC. Enlarge / Phobos, shown in this image, had once been thought to have been an asteroid captured by Mars.
This story originally appeared on the Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The survival of the Great Barrier Reef hinges on urgent moves to cut global warming because nothing else will protect coral from the coming cycle of mass …
Our climate is changing at such an accelerated pace, we’re struggling to keep up. Global temperatures are increasing at an alarming rate, and 1 in 6 species of wildlife are now at risk of extinction due to habitat destruction.
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