Since 2009, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been taking high-resolution pictures of the lunar surface. This data, along with the information from a laser altimeter mapping instrument has a… [+2560 chars]
As the moon heads into southern summer the region around the south pole is better seen by LROC. One of the many goals of the LRO mission is to improve our cartographic knowledge of the moon. Credit: … [+2862 chars]
Grains of sand on a beach can tell us more than you might think about the history of the planet, new research reveals something to think about the next time you're heading to the coast for a swim or … [+3234 chars]
Noah rode out his flood in an ark. Winnie-the-Pooh had an upside-down umbrella. Fire ants (Solenopsis invicta), meanwhile, form floating rafts made up of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of in… [+5291 chars]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Abrupt shifts in the evolution of animalsshort periods of time when an organism rapidly changes size or formhave long been a challenge for theorists including Darwin. Now a… [+3149 chars]
The twin galaxies NGC 4496A and NGC 4496B. ESA/Hubble & NASA, T. Boeker, B. Holwerda, Dark Energy Survey, DOE, FNAL/DECam, CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, SDSS Acknowledgement: R. Colombari These galaxi… [+2881 chars]
An infrared image of Saturn with an aurora visible at its south pole, taken by the Cassini ... [+] spacecraft. NASA, Cassini, VIMS Team, University of Arizona, University of Leicester, JPL, ASI Sat… [+2342 chars]
On Feb. 4, 2022, SpaceX launched 49 satellites as part of Elon Musks Starlink internet project, most of which burned up in the atmosphere days later. The cause of this more than US$50 million failure… [+7731 chars]
The evolutionary relationships among grassesincluding important crop plants like wheat, rice, corn, and sugarcanehave been clarified in a new molecular study of the grass family tree. Having a clear … [+5388 chars]
Upon seeing this image, Spanish scientist José Carlos del Toro Iniesta was stunned. I am a specialist in solar physics, but first of all I am a human being and my first feeling is that of any human … [+7577 chars]
New research from MIT suggests that a certain type of computer vision model that is trained to be robust to imperceptible noise added to image data encodes visual representations similarly to the way… [+9253 chars]
A crescent-shaped crater in Northeast China holds the record as the largest impact crater on Earth that formed in the last 100,000 years. Prior to 2020, the only other impact crater ever discovered … [+2818 chars]
