NASA’s Dawn Mission to the Asteroid Belt Says Good Night ...
Launched in 2007, the spacecraft discovered bright spots on Ceres and forbidding terrain on Vesta. Published: November 1, […]
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Hayabusa2 Ascends from Asteroid Ryugu
Will spacecraft Hayabusa2 be able to land safely on asteroid Ryugu? Since arriving in June, pictures show that […]
The Great Speckled Dinosaur Egg by JAMES GORMAN
Eggs of different colors evolved in dinosaurs before the appearance of birds. Published: October 31, 2018 at 01:00AM […]
This Halloween, Consider the Unappreciated Beauty of Spiders by JAMES ...
Arachnids get a bad rap, particularly around Halloween, but they’re actually quite lovely in their own, deadly, leaping, […]
Deer Antlers Couldn’t Grow So Fast Without These Genes by ...
Studying the genes that let deer quickly regrow their antlers could one day lead to treatments for people […]
Hawaiian Supreme Court Approves Giant Telescope on Mauna Kea by ...
The court granted a building permit for a roughly $2 billion observatory, which activists had protested would further […]
Kepler, the Little NASA Spacecraft That Could, No Longer Can ...
After nine-and-a-half years in orbit, 530,506 stars observed and 2,662 planets around other stars discovered, the telescope will […]
A Vault of Glass and the Deepest Volcanic Eruption Ever ...
Close to the Mariana Trench and nearly three miles below sea level, scientists found evidence of an underwater […]
Trolling the Monster in the Heart of the Milky Way ...
Something very large and dark occupies the center of our galaxy, and new data suggest that it is […]
Orionids Meteors over Inner Mongolia
Meteors have been shooting out from the constellation of Orion. This was expected, as October is the time […]