Science

Meteorite contains the oldest material on Earth

Eiernebel-koerner-768x576_0.jpg
Dust-rich outflows of evolved stars similar to the pictured Egg Nebula are plausible sources of...

Full Story »
Nuclear Technique Suppresses Tsetse Flies Without Harming Other Insects, Senegal Study Shows

img3372_0.jpg

Full Story »
NASA, NOAA to Announce 2019 Global Temperatures, Climate Conditions

2019temps_0.png
NASA and NOAA are two keepers of the world's temperature data and independently produce a record of Earth's surface...

Full Story »
Australia: like a furnace

Smoke_over_New_South_Wales_Australia_from_Copernicus_Sentinel-3_pillars_0.jpg
...

Full Story »
Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Find Dark Matter in Small Clumps

STSCI20200108a-16_0.jpg
Each snapshot shows four distorted images of a background quasar (an extremely bright region in the center of...

Full Story »
Goldilocks Stars Are Best Places to Look for Life

stsci-h-p2006a-f_0.png
This infographic compares the characteristics of three classes of stars in our galaxy: Sunlike stars are...

Full Story »
Kangaroo Island Shows Burn Scars On One Third of the Land Mass

kangaroo-dec.16_0.jpg
These images taken by the Terra satellite and enhanced by using correction reflectance bands on the MODIS (...

Full Story »
New Technique May Give NASA’s Webb Telescope a Way to Quickly Identify Planets with Oxygen

oxygenrichworlds_0.jpg
Conceptual image of water-bearing (left) and dry (right) exoplanets with oxygen-rich atmospheres. Crescents are...

Full Story »