Visualization of the Moon's far side using Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data. Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio / Ernie Wright. The phrase “dark side of the Moon” is one of those ...
Sitting on a crowded island with no natural freshwater sources of your own is an uncomfortable position for a country to be in. There are no large rivers or natural lakes, and limited land to catch ...
NASA illustration showing a neutron star, about 20 kilometres across, compared with Manhattan Island. Image: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. A neutron star is one of the few objects in astronomy ...
A representative Antarctic ice shelf photographed by Francesco Ungaro via Pexels. It is not Lake Vostok or the inland ice above it; the subglacial lake is invisible from the surface. At Russia’s ...
The James Webb Space Telescope cost roughly $10 billion, launched on Christmas Day 2021, and has produced science that, according to Space Telescope Science Institute project scientist Macarena Garcia ...
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid roughly 10 to 12 kilometres across struck a shallow, sulfur-rich carbonate platform near what is now Chicxulub, on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. It opened a ...
The headline claim, in the form it usually arrives, is that Saturn’s rings are around 400 million years old. The actual finding, published by Sascha Kempf and colleagues in Science Advances in May ...
In January 2004, a golf-cart-sized robot bounced down through the atmosphere of Mars on a cluster of airbags, rolled to a stop, and started doing what it was sent to do. NASA’s engineers had given it ...
Thousands of kilometres beneath the cloud tops of Neptune and Uranus, the pressure is thought to do something extraordinary to carbon. It crushes it into diamond. Those diamonds, denser than the ...
A study published in Geophysical Research Letters in March 2026 argues that the rate of global warming has risen sharply. The paper, by Grant Foster and Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for ...
The Huygens probe, dropped from the Cassini orbiter in January 2005, parachuted through an orange smog and photographed something no camera had ever seen from the ground: a floodplain of rounded ...
Starcross, Devon. The pumping house built for the South Devon Railway-s atmospheric system still stands beside the line where signallers could not confirm the track was clear. Photo by kitmasterbloke, ...
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