With advanced tech like laser scans that can peer deep into fossils—along with old-school methods like painstaking excavations of ancient bones—we’re learning more about dinosaurs every day.
This afternoon, NASA is going to make an announcement about big findings from the Cassini spacecraft, a probe that’s been exploring the Saturn system since 2004.
The first attempt to peer inside a black hole and take an image of its event horizon—the point of no return—appears to have been a success, with no major problems during the 10-day observation period.
This flat-map composite image depicts Earth’s night lights in 2016. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data from Miguel Román, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
Shoelaces have been around for thousands of years, but they are understood relatively poorly by scientists. A new study hopes to shed some light on how the dynamic forces of running cause knots to spontaneously unravel.
Astronaut Peggy Whitson, making her third flight aboard the International Space Station and her second as commander, already is the world’s most experienced female spacewalker.
Jupiter is famous for its Great Red Spot, a storm twice the diameter of Earth that rages on the gas giant’s surface. Now, researchers have found that it has a second great spot, almost as large – this one, a Great Cold Spot caused by the planet’s …
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) – Endangered North American right whales gave birth last winter to the fewest calves seen off the U.S. coast in 17 years, troubling scientists who say the low births support other evidence that the imperiled species’ population may …
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