Scientists have long pondered the durability of ancient Roman concrete structures, which have not only stood the test of time but have held up under extreme conditions, assuming it came…
Rome’s Pantheon has stood strong for thousands of years. Getty Images Despite being built thousands of years ago, some concrete structures across the world have surprisingly, and literally, stood the…
For the first time, new images from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed galaxies with stellar bars at a time when the universe was a quarter of its present…
An X 1.2 class solar flare recorded on Jan. 5, 2022. NASA/SDO An intense solar flare exploded on the surface of the sun late Thursday from a complex sunspot…
Researchers say that the Viking Age left an imprint on the genetics of present-day Scandinavians. In an international study published Thursday in the journal Cell, scientists found that DNA from…
These defrosting dunes on Mars look like they were laid down by a baker with a tube full of frosting. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our…
Hubble’s view (left) and Webb’s view (right) of barred spiral galaxy EGS-23205 as it was about 11 billion years ago. NASA/CEERS/University of Texas at Austin The James Webb Space Telescope…
Starliner after its return from a flight test. NASA hopes the Boeing spacecraft will carry crew to the ISS in 2023. NASA/Bill Ingalls It’s going to be tough for NASA…
Robert Bryant at work, circa 2012. Sean Smith/NASA Robert Bryant was part of a team at NASA in the early 1990s tasked with coming up with a new material for…
JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata snapped a view of the Mario CubeSat shortly after it was deployed from the ISS. NASA/Koichi Wakata The Mario movie based on the Super Mario Bros. game is…
