The moon spent a few million years as a volcanic wasteland, covered with ongoing eruptions that spewed from mountains and…
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Elephants are known for their intelligence, complex social behavior, memory and size, including their giant ears. The ears of African…
This week’s science news has taken us in a time machine, from the discovery of a 506 million-year-old fossil of…
A first-of its-kind space weather “tabletop” exercise has revealed major weaknesses in America’s preparedness for severe solar storms.In May 2024,…
NASA engineers have resurrected Voyager 1’s half-century-old thrusters more than 20 years after they fell silent, reviving a crucial backup…
The moon hovers over a shadowy void wreathed in sunlight in a stunning new photo taken by NASA’s Polarimeter to…
A tree-ringed African lake has yielded a record of Earth’s magnetic field spanning the past 150,000 years.A core of rock…
One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as…
Orange cats have a unique genetic mutation that gives them their special coats — and this mutation also explains why…
The risk of flooding events along the U.S. Northeast coast has doubled since 2005. Now, scientists have discovered that up…