NASA's Parker Solar Probe is the fastest object ever built, flying through the Sun's corona at 430,000 mph while a 4.5-inch carbon foam shield keeps its instruments at room temperature against 2,500-degree heat.

In 1995, a team of British radio astronomers led by Dr Tom Millar pointed one of the world’s largest radio telescopes at a faint patch of sky in the constellation Aquila — the Eagle. What they found, somewhat improbably, was alcohol. Not a trace amount of it.…

Taftan volcano in southeastern Iran rose 3.5 inches over 10 months, signaling that it is waking up after 700,000 years of dormancy.

Carl Sagan warned on Charlie Rose that America would be vulnerable to a charlatan leader without scientific skepticism.

The connection is one of those facts about the planet that nobody designed and almost no one outside the relevant atmospheric science literature knows about. Every year, somewhere between 180 and 200 million tons of fine particulate dust gets picked up from t…

The buffer pool designed to compensate for unintended carbon losses from the largest forest climate mitigation programme in the United States is too small when considering the impact of future climate change scenarios.

"Each time a satellite has to maneuver to avoid a potential collision, it uses fuel which is a finite and precious resource."

Basic properties of symmetric random matrices can explain the emergence of macroscopic patterns in neural networks, suggesting that initialization conditions of connected neural populations may confer computational advantages across the mouse brain.

As a bonus, it captured Mars images from a rare perspective."