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The molecular cloud Eos is one of the single largest structures in Earth’s skies. | Credit: Thomas Müller (HdA/MPIA) and Thavisha…
For over a century, astronomers have wondered if there’s an extra planet in our Solar System that we haven’t been able to detect yet. It seems like we get another “Planet Nine” candidate — formerly known as Planet X, before Pluto was demoted…
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This spectrograph map, generated from data collected by NASA’s New Horizons probe, depicts the relatively uniform brightness of the ultraviolet…
NASA‘s Perseverance rover almost had to let go of a precious drill bit on Mars after an attempt to collect a rock sample went awry.
For the past week, the car-sized lab on wheels seemed to remain in its…
Genetic material from hundreds of mammoths is providing an unprecedented glimpse into their family tree and shows how these Ice Age giants emerged, migrated, and adapted to a changing world.
Scientists at Stockholm University and the Centre for…
When naturalists tally the frogs in a farm pond or the orchids in a mountain meadow they always encounter the same rule of thumb: when you survey a larger range, the more species you find. The relationship seems simple, yet ecologists have…
Two NASA astronauts performed history’s fifth all-female spacewalk today (May 1), moving an antenna and partially preparing the International Space Station for a new set of solar arrays.
Expedition 73 crewmates Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers…
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New data from NASA’s Juno mission, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, has provided scientists with insight into the extreme winds and cyclones present within the gas giant’s atmosphere. The data allowed scientists to…
In the quiet reaches of California’s White Mountains, one tree has survived through 4,800 years of storms, droughts, empires, and empires’ collapse. Known as Methuselah, this bristlecone pine has stood silently through the birth of writing, the…