NASA Is Picking Finalists for a Space Mission. Here Are ...
NASA will choose on Wednesday from a dozen proposals in its New Frontiers program, including spacecraft to study […]
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What Eats What: a Landlubber’s Guide to Deep Sea Dining ...
After studying decades of video footage captured by robotic submersibles, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute has figured […]
The Sands of Time by C. CLAIBORNE RAY
The depth of sand on a beach can vary considerably from location to location. Human intervention often doesn’t […]
The Spiral North Pole of Mars
Why is there a spiral around the North Pole of Mars? Each winter this pole develops a new […]
The Amargosa River Defies the Desert by JIM ROBBINS
The slender, delicate stream flows through the Mojave, giving life to plants and animals found nowhere else in […]
The Kepler 90 Planetary System
Do other stars have planetary systems like our own? Yes — one such system is Kepler-90. Cataloged by […]
The Einstein Cross Gravitational Lens
Most galaxies have a single nucleus — does this galaxy have four? The strange answer leads astronomers to […]
A Wintry Shower
Four Geminids flash through northern skies in this wintry night skyscape. The bright fireball and 3 fainter meteors […]
An Ancient Step Toward Modern Birds by NICHOLAS BAKALAR
Anchiornis was a feathered dinosaur, about the size of a pigeon and incapable of flight. Its wings say […]
An 8th Planet Is Found Orbiting a Distant Star, With ...
A Google neural network analyzed data collected by NASA and helped astronomers detect another planet around a star […]