The fireball was caught by numerous Russian residents on camera in 2013. CNET screenshot/Tuvix72/YouTube Almost every day, some hunk of space rock impacts the Earth and burns up as a…
Hyloscirtus tolkieni hanging out in the forest. Juan Carlos Sánchez-Nivicela/Archive Museo de Zoología, Universidad San Francisco de Quito Deep inside Ecuador’s Río Negro-Sopladora National Park, the line between fantasy and…
The team’s computer models that were run using Leonardo da Vinci’s ancient notes about his thoughts on gravity. Caltech In 1907, Albert Einstein presented the world with a startling truth…
The fireball as seen at its brightest above France. Twitter @MegaLuigi video screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET It may be one of the most widely observed space rocks no one knew…
Hubble’s view of Saturn at the start of “spoke season.” NASA, ESA and Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC); image processing by Alyssa Pagan (STScI) There’s something unusual happening in a new Hubble…
It took hundreds of images to put together a broad Martian panorama showing all 10 of the Perseverance rover’s sample depot tubes on the ground. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS This story is part…
AI designed this part that was made from a block of aluminum. It has connections for mirrors and instruments, with room for humans to get their hands in there to…
A small asteroid entered the Earth’s atmosphere over western Europe, creating a spectacular sight of a fireball careening across the skies until it made impact in northern France by the…
Our love is like Bennu: I thought it was solid, but it turned out to be pretty rocky. NASA Goddard It’s Valentine’s Day. Some people love it. Some people, not…
An artist’s reconstruction of Kumimanu fordycei and Petradyptes stonehousei. Simone Giovanardi While searching through the beachy boulders of New Zealand’s South Island, a crew of international scientists stumbled on an…
