The sunset and crescent moon are visible as the SOFIA team prepares to observe Venus. Credit: NASA / AFRC, Carla Thomas Edinburgh, 3 May 2022. – NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), who has a… [+1260 chars]
Never-ending fields, towering dunes, and irregular ridges on Io could be formed by winds and lava flowing under a crust of sulfur dioxide ice. A study published on April 19, 2022, in Nature Communica… [+1216 chars]
Corals, a keystone species of marine ecosystems, are being killed off because of climate change and ocean warming. Corals, along with sea anemones and jellyfish, all belong to a group of animals know… [+2853 chars]
asteroid: A rocky object in orbit around the sun. Most asteroids orbit in a region that falls between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Astronomers refer to this region as the asteroid belt. atmospher… [+9339 chars]
A newly published study by researchers at the University of Hawaii at Mnoa revealed that bacteria alter their swimming patterns when they get into tight spacesmaking a beeline to escape from confinem… [+3157 chars]
The Instagram page of Nasa is a treasure trove for those who love space-related content. The posts often leave people stunned and amazed. Their latest share about black holes is the same. The space a… [+1819 chars]
Sometime around 14,000 years ago, the first humans crossed the Bering Strait to North America with canines, domesticated dogs they used for hunting, by their side. But long before the canines arrive… [+6475 chars]
WASHINGTON A NASA lunar cubesat mission is now scheduled to launch in late May on a Rocket Lab Electron after resolving issues with the rockets kick stage. In a call with reporters after the May 2 l… [+2550 chars]
Mars is full of volcanoes, such as these ones in the Tharsis region: Ceraunius Tholus and Uranius ... [+] Tholus. This image came from data taken during separate orbits of the European Space Agency's… [+2281 chars]
In contrast to previous assumptions, the defense hormones salicylic acid and jasmonic acid do not always suppress each other in regulating plant chemical defenses against pests and pathogens. In tree… [+6226 chars]
New ancient DNA analysis has shed light on how the black rat, blamed for spreading Black Death, dispersed across Europe -- revealing that the rodent colonised the continent on two occasions in the Ro… [+3271 chars]
Mays Full Moon will reach its maximum just as spring peaks around much of the United States. Appropriately for the scene surrounding many Americans, the May Full Moon is called the Flower Moon. But… [+3944 chars]