A long-running NASA rover imaged twisted Red Planet rock pillars. The Curiosity rover spotted (opens in new tab) the sinewy rocks on May 15, according to raw images the mission sends down to Earth. … [+2884 chars]
ByMartin Greenwald, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion CenterJune 4, 2022 Visualization of filamentary seed magnetic fields emerging from large-scale motions of unmagnetized plasma in a first-principles … [+9356 chars]
The lightning protection system at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39B recently intercepted the most powerful lightning strike ever recorded at the spaceport. When this event occurred, the age… [+1739 chars]
During its first couple hundred days in Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover saw some of the most intense dust activity ever witnessed by a mission sent to the Red Planet's surface. Not only… [+5505 chars]
ByAustralian National UniversityJune 4, 2022 Animation showing an artists rendition of Mars interior structure. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Spac… [+5927 chars]
Older adults can benefit from higher levels of physical activity in many ways. Physical activity and exercise in older people can lower the risk of chronic disease, extend life expectancy, retain f… [+4750 chars]
The lightning protection system at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39B recently intercepted the most powerful lightning strike ever recorded at the spaceport. When this event occurred, the age… [+1739 chars]
Scientists have discovered that an ultra-reactive chemical in Earth’s atmosphere lasts much longer than we previously believed. In fact, they believe that millions of tons of the chemical could linge… [+2534 chars]
An artist’s rendering of the early solar system, featuring the proto-Sun, newly forming planets, and circumstellar disk. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC) Billions of years ago, when the Sun wa… [+3203 chars]
The transit of Venus on June 5, 2012 from Mauna Kea volcano, Hawaii captured by astronomer Tom ... [+] Kerss. This image taken with a small telescope shows the whole disk of the Sun, exhibiting quite… [+6887 chars]
At long last: the crystal structure of three layers of -graphyne. (Courtesy: Yiming Hu) Two new processes for producing different types of graphyne a 2D allotrope of carbon that includes triple bond… [+6674 chars]
It is not a secret that Venus is Earth's nearest planetary neighbor and is the second planet from the Sun. But have you ever wondered what this planet looks like up close? First Close-Up Photo of Ve… [+3850 chars]