Listen to Jupiter’s Powerful Auroras and Saturn’s Rings in NASA’s Latest Audio Experience!
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has introduced an innovative way to explore the far reaches of our solar system.…
Isaac Newton, scientist: “A man can imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true”
Isaac Newton, born Dec. 25, 1642, in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, is widely regarded as one of history’s most…
3,300 Pounds of Shark Fins Seized in Brazilian Raid Connected to Chinese Syndicate
Some 1.5 metric tons of shark fins were seized in a Brazilian operation in February. Photo: Brazilian Federal…
No legal protections for rare slimleaf onion
Michael Geselbracht was out for a Saturday run in Nanaimo, B.C., when he came across soil piled up…
This record-breaking quadruple star system is so jam-packed it could fit between Jupiter and our sun
Using NASA’s exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) astronomers have discovered an extraordinary quadruple star. The system…
Physicists discover long-predicted ‘clock magnetism’ in an atomically thin crystal
image: When researchers at UT Austin coaxed an atomically thin sheet of nickel phosphorus trisulfide to enter a…
Photographer Flies Drone Over Humpback Whale, Realizes It’s in Grave Peril
John Kowitz Not long after setting off from the Hawaiian coast, underwater photographer John Kowitz and his team…
we are going after rare earths even if they are 1,180 miles from Tokyo
Far out in the Pacific, near the tiny coral atoll of Minamitorishima Island about 1,900 kilometers southeast of…
3rd time’s the charm? Watch private Japanese rocket try to reach orbit today
Update for 9:08 p.m. ET on March 3: Today’s planned launch of the Kairos rocket has been scrubbed.…
A Mysterious Galaxy Dominated by 99% Dark Matter Has Just Been Found
Astronomers have unveiled an extraordinary find: a ghostly galaxy almost entirely composed of dark matter. Located 300 million…
Night cameras film extremely rare pigmy hippos wandering though Ivory Coast rainforest
They may be the size of a Shetland pony and weigh up to 275kg (600lb) but pigmy hippos…
New ‘Dark Galaxy’ Identified as NASA Says It’s Nearly Invisible and Made Up of 99% Dark Matter
NEED TO KNOW A new galaxy, named Candidate Dark Galaxy-2 or CDG-2, was recently discovered using the Hubble…