Science

Through Smoke and Fire, NASA Searches for Answers

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On Dec. 5, 2017, the Multi Spectral Imager on the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellite captured the data for a false-color...

Hubble Uncovers Black Hole that Shouldn't Exist

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A Hubble Space Telescope image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3147 appears next to an...

Light dark matter is a thousand times less likely to bump into regular matter than previous astrophysical analyses allowed

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Simulation of the dark matter structure surrounding the Milky Way. Driven by gravity, dark matter forms dense structures, referred to...

New Sensor Could Shake Up Earthquake Response Efforts

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A new sensor developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory combines laser beams with a position...

Wildfires Across Alaska Top One Million Acres Burned

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For Climbing Robots, the Sky's the Limit

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The climbing robot LEMUR rests after scaling a cliff in Death Valley, California. The robot uses...

Upside-down 3D-printed skin and bone, for humans to Mars

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Bioprinted skin sample

New Method Can Spot Failing Infrastructure from Space

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A satellite view of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa, Italy, prior to its August 2018 collapse. The numbers identify key bridge...