Earth's interior is not a uniform stack of layers. Deep in its thick middle layer lie two colossal blobs of thermo-chemical material. To this day, scientists still don't know where both of these col… [+3788 chars]
To find features like groundwater under Earth 's surface — or under the surface of another world — scientists can sense the subtle marks those features leave in the planet's gravitational field. Bu… [+3544 chars]
Credit: Tokyo University of Science Animals often use highly specific signals to warn their herd about approaching predators. Surprisingly, similar behaviors are also observed among plants. Shedding… [+4383 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope took more than two decades and $10 billion to build. It’s one of NASA’s most expensive science projects. A combination of difficult engineering and mismanagement led to… [+155 chars]
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, researchers at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands have for the first time detected dimethyl ether in a planet-forming disc. … [+8009 chars]
Drones have become more and more ubiquitous in recent years. From recently discovering the Endurance to participating in wars, drones have made history in more ways than one. Now they have a new jo… [+3584 chars]
It boggles the mind to think of all the wondrous things that NASA has achieved since its inception in 1958, but its equally astounding to think about all the projects that couldve been. Here are seve… [+5931 chars]
The Apollo missions to the Moon brought a total of 2,196 rock samples to Earth. But NASA has only just started opening one of the last ones, collected 50 years ago. For all that time, some tubes wer… [+2509 chars]
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, researchers at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands have for the first time detected dimethyl ether in a planet-forming disc. … [+8009 chars]
