NASA's Rover Perseverance Safely Lands On Mars

NASA’s six-wheeled rover landed successfully on Mars yesterday. NPR’s Joe Palca talks about the descent and…

COVID-19: Future targets for treatments rapidly identified with new computer simulations

Researchers have detailed a mechanism in the distinctive corona of COVID-19 that could help scientists to…

How to calculate the social cost of carbon? Researchers offer roadmap in new analysis

The Biden administration is revising the social cost of carbon (SCC), a decade-old cost-benefit metric used…

Quartz crystals in the stomach of fossil bird complicates the mystery of its diet

It’s hard to know what prehistoric animals’ lives were like—even answering seemingly simple questions, like what…

Touchdown: NASA's Perseverance rover ready to search for life on Mars

After seven months in space, NASA’s Perseverance rover overcame a tense landing phase with a series…

Tantrums of a baby star

Herbig-Haro objects are some of the rarer sights in the night sky, taking the form of thin…

Lusaka, Zambia

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Lusaka – the capital and largest city of Zambia. …

Earth from Space: Lusaka, Zambia

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Lusaka – the capital and largest city of Zambia.…

India's glacier disaster highlights Himalayan dangers

Long before this month’s deadly flash flood in a remote Indian Himalayan valley, Kundan Singh Rana…

Indonesia volcano erupts, spews red-hot lava

Indonesia’s Mount Merapi, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, erupted on Friday, belching out fiery…