When the seventeen-year Brood X cicadas emerge again in a few weeks, it will be the brood’s third time above ground since they inspired Bob Dylan’s...
Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. says it’s won a contract to handle logistics for a pair of NASA satellites that will study the factors behind atmospheric drag.
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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is about to deploy the Ingenuity helicopter, a small rotorcraft that will attempt the first-ever flight of its kind on another planet....
Researchers at MIT have discovered aromatic hydrocarbons in space, and they may alter our understanding of how life first began.
When a franchise buys a superstar like Tom Brady or LeBron James, the team tends to win more games. But do the fans follow? How much...
A cast of so-called 'nurse cells' surrounds and supports the growing fruit fly egg during development, supplying the egg—or 'oocyte'—with all the nutrients and...
The first documented record of salt as an ancient Maya commodity at a marketplace is depicted in a mural painted more than 2,500 years ago at...
A U.S. weather satellite that retired eight years ago has fallen apart in orbit, breaking into at least 16 pieces of space junk , according to...
Nine years ago, a team of Yale ecologists mapped out the world’s life, a project that showed biodiversity patterns in geographical context; basically, a heat map...