Space.com

International Space Station — Everything you need to know about the orbital laboratory

The International Space Station (ISS) is a multi-nation construction project that is the largest single structure humans ever ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A New Study Points to Two Origins of Life on Earth by Tracing Early Chemical Reactions in Single-Celled Organisms

The work challenges the assumption that all life descended from one free-living cell. Instead, it suggests that two microbial ...

August’s total solar eclipse will sweep over Spain, Iceland and Greenland

For the first time in more than a century, a total solar eclipse is coming to mainland Spain with an even longer encore next ...

Study lays groundwork for classifying lunar soil

As we move closer to supporting a sustainable human presence on the moon, researchers are investigating how its soils can ...
Eos

Elizabeth Cottrell: From Collecting Rocks to Curating the National Rock Collection

Elizabeth Cottrell went from collecting rocks as a child to becoming the steward of one of the world’s largest collections of rocks and ores. Here she is seen working in her laboratory at the National ...
New Scientist

A handy guide to the science of super-long fingernails

Feedback is delighted by a deep dive into why people sometimes wear "artificially elongated fingernails". But does it do more ...
KXAN

Will the Sun swallow Earth? New study offers surprising answer

AUSTIN (KXAN) — New research suggests Earth may survive the Sun’s final giant phases, challenging earlier predictions that our planet would eventually be swallowed by the aging star. In a study ...
Wired

Good News! Turns Out the Earth Will Never Be Swallowed by the Sun

A new study suggests that when our solar system’s star becomes unstable in 5 billion years or so, Earth may avoid being engulfed by its fiery demise. Scientists have long estimated that in about 5 ...
SpaceNews

NASA selects mission to study space weather interaction with Earth’s atmosphere

The Dynamic Atmosphere-Ionosphere Explorer, or DAPHNE, mission will study the interaction between space weather and the Earth's atmosphere. Credit: Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics/Mary ...
CU Boulder News & Events

NASA selects LASP mission to study how Earth and space weather connect

NASA has selected a mission concept led by the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) to investigate the complex system of space weather that surrounds Earth, and how this system connects ...
Gizmodo

Scientists Think Africa May Be Cracking Along a New Tectonic Plate Boundary

Earth’s mantle appears to be leaking a little along Central Africa. If this continues to develop, this rift could grow into a new tectonic plate boundary—splitting the African continent in half. In a ...
Forbes

6 Important Facts To Know As Earth Day Approaches

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. IN SPACE - APRIL 04: In this handout image provided by NASA, NASA astronaut and Artemis II ...