The year 2019 was an amazing one for space photography. From rocket launches to the northern lights, cosmic views dazzled us as the year made its annual trip around the sun. Here are 100 of our favorite space images from the last 365 days to get you ...
NASA's Mars 2020 rover has taken its first test drive, representing a significant milestone in preparing to launch to the Red Planet next summer. A new video from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) shows the rover rolling forward and backward, and ...
Black holes are dark spots in the fabric of space-time, incredibly dense singularities with such strong gravity that nothing can escape their clutches. They spend their time doing one thing: gobbling up matter. Get close enough to a black hole, and you're cosmic ...
Eastern California's Mono Lake has no outflow, allowing salts to build up over time. The high salts in this carbonate-rich lake can grow into pillars. Credit: Matthew Dillon/Flickr. Life as we know it requires phosphorus. It's one of the six main chemical elements ...
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Predicting the number of launches for an upcoming year is tricky business. Case in point: the Space Coast in 2019 was slated to host many more liftoffs than the 16 it actually saw, according to Air Force estimates established early in the year. The culprits ...
Most of the time, the ground beneath our feet feels permanent. Landscapes, oceans, mountain ranges — all seem enduring compared to the human lifespan. But the Earth can change quickly and dramatically at times. The past year saw some of those ...
A CT scan of Tiktaalik's fin skeleton, showing its dorsal rays (yellow) and ventral rays (cyan). Credit: Tom Stewart. Research on fossilized fish from the late Devonian period, roughly 375 million years ago, details the evolution of fins as they began to transition ...
The North Atlantic Current transports warm water from the Gulf of Mexico towards Europe, providing much of north-western Europe with a relatively mild climate. However, scientists suspect that meltwater from Greenland and excessive rainfall could interfere ...
The 2010s will be remembered as the decade when we could no longer deny climate change. I mean, it's not like any rational person could deny it in the preceding decades, but the past 10 years have seen scientists' predictions become reality. Our world has ...
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