Utah’s ‘Grand Staircase’ Leads Back in Time to Dinosaur Shangri-La
By JENNIFER PINKOWSKI The craggy Kaiparowits Plateau, part of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, was once a steamy […]
Science
Yuri Milner, Russian Entrepreneur, Promises $100 Million for Alien Search
By DENNIS OVERBYE Mr. Milner says that over the next decade he will provide money for new receiving […]
The First Rocket Launch from Cape Canaveral
A new chapter in space flight began this week in 1950 July with the launch of the first […]
Hearing With a Hole in Your Eardrum
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY The bigger the hole, the worse the loss of hearing will be, but the […]
The Long, Strange Trip to Pluto, and How NASA Nearly ...
By KENNETH CHANG The flyby of Pluto was a triumph of human ingenuity and the capstone of a […]
Counting All the DNA on Earth
By RACHEL NUWER Hint: It takes an awful lot of trillions to come up with this sort of […]
‘Beautiful Eye Candy’: Frozen Plains in Pluto’s Heart
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Vast frozen plains exist next door to Pluto’s big, rugged mountains sculpted of ice, […]
50-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Sperm in Antarctica
By SINDYA N. BHANOO “It’s a bizarre fossil oddball,” a Swedish paleontologist says, and as it turns out, […]
Charon
Icy world Charon is 1,200 kilometers across. That makes Pluto’s largest moon only about 1/10th the size of […]
Pluto Terrain Yields Big Surprises in New Horizons Images
By KENNETH CHANG Images from the NASA mission show a mixed bag of terrains, including ice mountains and […]