A shrinking moon is causing moonquakes and faults near the lunar south pole, data from a NASA-funded study shows. The study, published Thursday in the Planetary Science Journal, took a…
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image depicting a star-forming complex known as N79. The region is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), which is…
A NASA team has finally removed two “stubborn” fasteners on the lid of a return capsule from its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to reveal the materials it harvested from an asteroid, the…
The East Coast of the United States is known for its miles of gorgeous beaches, but now something beneath the surface has been discovered that makes it even more of…
We just lived through the hottest year since records began more than a century ago, but looking back at 2023, it might not be defined in our memories by extreme…
A team of researchers, including those from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (NMMNHS), say the discovery of a new dinosaur subspecies is believed to be a…
Astronomers witnessed mysterious light around a failed star in an unexpected celestial discovery using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. A group of astronomers witnessed infrared emissions from methane surrounding a…
NASA has quelled concerns that a lost 54-million-ton asteroid could potentially hit Earth this year, devastating large regions of the planet. The space agency issued a statement in response to…
We lived through the hottest year since records began more than a century ago, but looking back at 2023, it might not be defined in our memories by extreme heat. …
From monkeys terrorizing tourists to China’s “panda politics,” wild animals found their way into the news and captured our imagination in increasingly unexpected ways in 2023. An expert recently argued…
