NASA’s Osiris-Rex Selects Target Asteroid Landing Site by SHANNON STIRONE
The spacecraft spent a year mapping Bennu’s rugged terrain, and next year it will touch down on the […]
Science
The Case of a Man With Two Sets of DNA ...
A crime lab studied a patient’s response to a bone marrow transplant. Readers requested more information about the […]
Meteor Showers That Will Light Up Night Skies in 2019 ...
All year long, Earth passes through streams of cosmic debris. Here’s our list of major meteor showers and […]
The Math Equation That Tried to Stump the Internet by ...
Sometimes BODMAS is just PEMDAS by another name. And no, the answer is not 100. Published: August 2, […]
Decorating the Sky
Bright stars, clouds of dust and glowing nebulae decorate this cosmic scene, a skyscape just north of Orion’s […]
Head Cones in Ancient Egyptian Graves Cap Archaeological Debate by ...
It took recent excavations to finally prove that the headgear depicted in hieroglyphic scenes was real and not […]
Birds Are Vanishing From North America by CARL ZIMMER
The number of birds in the United States and Canada has declined by 3 billion, or 29 percent, […]
Mythical Beings May Be Earliest Imaginative Cave Art by Humans ...
The paintings on an Indonesian island are at least 43,900 years old and depict humanoid figures with animal-like […]
Sync your calendar with the solar system by MICHAEL ROSTON
Never miss an eclipse, a meteor shower, a rocket launch or any other astronomical and space event that’s […]
N63A: Supernova Remnant in Visible and X-ray
What has this supernova left behind? As little as 2,000 years ago, light from a massive stellar explosion […]