NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft has detected sporadic ‘layers’ and ‘rifts’ in the ionosphere — the electrically charged part of the upper atmosphere — of Mars.
A “beating heart” of frozen nitrogen controls Pluto’s winds and may give rise to features on its surface, according to a new study.
Airline pilots see plenty of weird things while flying passengers from one place to another, but most of it occurs in the plane’s cabin.
Doorbell cameras seem to be everywhere these days and this has resulted in all manner of unusual “blink and you’ll miss it” incidents being caught on film that would have otherwise gone unseen.
It was a big moment for our cosmos when the first stars awoke, but it’s an elusive one for scientists.
Evolution is an ongoing process, although many don’t realize people are still evolving.
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft went into fault protection mode on Tuesday January 28th. The fault protection routines automatically protect the spacecraft in harmful conditions. Both Voyagers have these routines programmed into their systems.
The search for potentially-habitable planets has heated up in recent years, and it’s only going to get hotter as the decade unfolds!
The smoldering crater left by the apocalyptic space rock became a nice home for blue-green algae within years of the impact.
Einstein’s theory of relativity has been proven right once again.
