British built Mars rover gets the gift of sight
PanCam was developed in Britain by scientists from UCL’s...
Seeking innovative ideas for exploring lunar caves
Where Are New Stars Born? NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Investigate
This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of galaxy SDSS J1226+2152, which is being magnified and distorted by the immense gravity of a...
Boreal Forest Fires Could Release Deep Soil Carbon
The 2014 fires in Canada’s Northwest Territories burned more than 7 million acres of boreal forest, mainly comprised of cone-bearing...
Amazon Rainforest Absorbing Less Carbon Than Expected
View from the top of a measurement tower, where researchers monitor critical forest canopy processes such as photosynthesis, plant...
GRACE-FO Shows the Weight of Midwestern Floods
North America was almost entirely above its long-term average in mass in May 2019, due to Midwestern flooding, with the runoff raising...
A battery-free sensor for underwater exploration
A battery-free underwater “piezoelectric” sensor invented by MIT researchers transmits data by absorbing or reflecting sound waves...
NASA Gets a Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's Surface
This artist's illustration depicts the exoplanet LHS 3844b, which is 1.3 times the mass of Earth and orbits an M dwarf star...
