New 3D Mapping Technique Improves Landslide Hazard Prediction
This image shows the Slumgullion Landslide in southwestern Colorado. The central area above the highway moves almost...
Astronomers Discover 30 Degree Arc of Ultraviolet Emission Centered on the Big Dipper
View of the night sky looking north from Chicago at 2:20 a.m. on June 4, 2020, showing the...
Hubble Makes Surprising Find in the Early Universe
The Early Universe (artist’s impression).
Study: Reflecting sunlight to cool the planet will cause other global changes
MIT researchers find that extratropical storm tracks — the blue regions of storminess in the Earth's...
Magnetic Fields Force New Perspective on the Center of Our Milky Way Galaxy
A composite image of the central region of our Milky Way galaxy, known as...
Citizen Scientists Spot Closest Young Brown Dwarf Disk Yet
Researchers at MIT, the University of Oklahoma, and elsewhere, with the help of citizen scientists,...
Scientists Shed Light on Growth of Black Holes
Scientists Shed Light on Growth of Black Holes
Ice Melt Linked to Accelerated Regional Freshwater Depletion
A small glacier in the Arctic region of Norwegian archipelago Svalbard, as photographed by NASA's Airborne...
