Ancient remnants of a long-lost part of the Earth believed to be 120 million years old have been located by experts in Borneo.New discoveries about our planet are continuously being made by experts, from finding continents that have been missing for hundreds …
The northern lights, also known as aurora borealis, are one of Earth’s most breathtaking natural wonders. Stargazing enthusiast Trace Dominguez shares the sc...
The freshly launched observatory encountered a navigation issue that jeopardized its entire mission, but a software patch rectified its cosmic orientation.
The material collected by the OSRIS-REx spacecraft three years ago from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu was to be unveiled at NASA's Johnston Space Center in Houston, a little more than two weeks after it was parachuted into the Utah desert. Huge ancient solar…
Millions of people from Texas to Oregon will be hoping for a cloudless sky to witness the "ring of fire" created during an annular solar eclipse on Oct. 14, with a swath of the western U.S. along the 125-mile-wide path of maximum eclipse.
Researchers have used SIF to measure the effects of elevated ozone (O3) on soybean plants. Over the last decade, agriculture has relied on solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) measurements to detect plant stress. Researchers need methods to examine ho…
If there is anything that comes second in utility to a cast iron skillet in a kitchen, it is the wok. A well-constructed vessel that is most commonly used for stir-frying, is in fact, one of the most versatile cooking tools to have in store.
It's really cold in space. If your body was exposed to such extremely cold temperatures, you would freeze almost instantly. Right? Not exactly. Not even close, actually.
Most experts believed that early humans arrived in North America about 13,500 years ago. In contrast, these footprints were around 23,000 years old, leaving archaeologists with the 7,000-year-old mystery gap.
A long-lost tectonic plate dubbed 'Pontus' that was a quarter of the size of the Pacific Ocean was discovered by chance by scientists studying ancient rocks in Borneo.
Science News: Scientists have discovered that the sinking of metals into the Earth's core can be prevented by impact-driven mixing of mantle materials. Previous sim
Despite humans living with cats for thousands of years, scientists still don’t quite know how they make purring sounds. But new research appears to be edging us closer.
Along with the Psyche asteroid mission launching on October 12, NASA is sending a laser communication experiment called Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)