Shatter cones, rock fractures formed by the shock of a meteorite impact, in the Santa Fe impact structure near Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Ames structure itself is buried and not pictured. Photo: Ikluft ...
A Project West Ford dipole dispenser and canister on display at the Smithsonian's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Photo: GeneralNotability / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 In May 1963, about 3,600 ...
In April 1967, a robotic NASA lander called Surveyor 3 settled onto the Ocean of Storms, scooped at the lunar soil, sent home more than 6,000 photographs, and then went quiet as the two-week lunar ...
Once every synodic month, the Sun, Moon and Earth move into a geometry that puts Earth inside the Moon’s downstream sodium stream. Neutral atoms released from lunar soil have been accelerated away ...
Artist's concept of a young star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk. This is a representative illustration, not a reconstruction of the early Solar System or a figure from the new study. Credit: NASA ...
Enhanced-color view of Deimos acquired by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on February 21, 2009. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona ...
A faceted crystal disperses light into a spectrum. Representative image for an article about measuring solar silver through spectral lines; this is not study data or an image of silver on the Sun.
A little after 2am Pacific time on 23 September 1999, a spacecraft slipped behind Mars and never came out the other side. Mars Climate Orbiter was supposed to skim about 226 kilometres above the ...
Scrape up a teaspoon of garden soil and you are holding several billion bacteria, and a fair few of them are quietly running on nothing but air. Hydrogen makes up ...
The container ship Ever Laurel, operated by Evergreen Marine, was three days out of Hong Kong on 10 January 1992, bound across the North Pacific for the port of Tacoma, Washington, when a severe ...
What if the part of a battery you never think about, the fluid that sits between the electrodes, could be made from the shells your last seafood dinner left behind? That is roughly what a team led by ...
Moa eggshell scattered across the floor is how the cave got its name, and it turned out to be the least interesting thing in there. Moa Eggshell Cave sits near Waitomo on New Zealand’s North Island, ...
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