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Study: Trip to Mars Could Weaken Astronaut’s Immune System

January 25, 2019

Artist impression of humans exploring Mars. (NASA)

Quantum Mechanics Will Be Used to Determine Weight and Measurement Standards

November 16, 2018

A replica of the prototype of the kilogram (Le Grand K) at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris, France. (Japs 88/Wikimedia Commons/Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported)

NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Ends 11-Year Mission

November 3, 2018

This image of Ceres approximates how the dwarf planet's colors would appear to the eye. This view of Ceres, produced by the German Aerospace Center in Berlin, combines images taken during Dawn's first science orbit in 2015. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA)

Earth’s Largest Organism is Deteriorating

October 19, 2018

The Pando aspen clone as seen from a distance (green foreground and middle -- not yellow). The photo captures about ½ the total grove. A close look reveals many dead trees on the ground. Foreground depicts successful regeneration; middle green shows dying forest with little new growth. (Lance Oditt, Studio 47.60° North - with permission)

Bees Take a Break During Total Solar Eclipse

October 12, 2018

A bee gathers nectar from a flower (Photo: BitHead Via Creative Commons @ Flickr)

Study: Pluto Should Be a Planet!

September 15, 2018

NASA released this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto on 9/25/15. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC) on 7/14/15. (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI)

New Blood Test Tells Your Body’s Time

September 11, 2018

This diagram depicts the circadian patterns typical of someone who rises early in morning, eats lunch around noon, and sleeps at night (10 p.m.). (Yassine Mrabet via Wikimedia Commons)

Did a Volcanic Eruption Lead to Napoleon’s Defeat at Waterloo?

August 24, 2018

The Battle of Waterloo. Painting by William Sadler (Wikimedia Commons)

Iron and Titanium Found in Atmosphere of Ultra-hot Exoplanet

August 17, 2018

This artist's concept shows planet KELT-9b orbiting its host star, KELT-9. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Astronomers Find and Confirm 44 New Extrasolar Planets

August 10, 2018

The 44 confirmed planets and their approximate size class, orbits and surface temperatures. (John Livingston)

Lowest Frequency Fast Radio Burst Detected

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, (CHIME) in 2015, during construction of the parabolic trough reflector at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in British Columbia, Canada. (Mateus A. Fandiño/Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons)

Space and Earth Weather Align to Make a Bad Situation Worse

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured this image of the sun as it pumped out a powerful X1.8-class flare solar flare on 12/19/14. X-class flares are the biggest and most intense of these solar explosions that blast large amounts of energy, light and high speed particles into space. (NASA)

Possible New Power Source of Yellowstone Supervolcano Found

The gorgeous colors of Yellowstone National Park’s Grand Prismatic hot spring are among the park’s many hydrothermal features created by the fact that Yellowstone sits above a supervolcano – the largest type of volcano on Earth. (Robert B. Smith & Lee J. Siegel)

Mars In The News

This image, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows Mars, as it was observed On 5/12/16, before opposition in 2016 (NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (ASU), and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute)

Why Men Recover Faster from the Flu Than Women

A microscopic image of the H1N1 ('swine flu') influenza virus - In 2009, the World Health Organization declared this new strain as a pandemic.

Astronomers Discover A Dozen New Jovian Moons

Various groupings of Jovian moons with the newly discovered ones shown in bold. (Roberto Molar-Candanosa, courtesy of Carnegie Institution for Science)

Smartphone App Helps Farmers Fight Pest

Fall armyworm larvae have caused an estimated $2.5 billion to $6.2 billion in damage annually to maize in sub-Saharan Africa since the pest arrived there in 2016. (John C. French Sr., Retired, Universities:Auburn, GA, Clemson and U of MO, Bugwood.org)

Scientists: It’s New Era In Space Research

Artistic rendering of a flaring supermassive black hole 3.7 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion, which is the suspected source of a super-high-energy subatomic particle, a neutrino, that has launched a new era of space research. (Nate Follmer, Penn State)

Car Vibrations May Induce Drowsy Driving

Drowsy driver (Joonas Tikkanen/CC BY-ND 2.0 via Flickr)

Astronomers Discover Ancient Galactic Collision that Reshaped the Milky Way

An impression of the encounter between the Milky Way galaxy and the smaller "Sausage" galaxy about 8 billion to 10 billion years ago. The record of this ancient encounter is still preserved in the velocities and chemistry of the stars. (V. Belokurov (Cambridge, UK); Based on image by ESO/Juan Carlos Muñoz)

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