On Mars, the past is written in stone—but the present is written in sand. Last week, Perseverance explored inactive megaripples to learn more about the wind-driven processes that are reshaping
On Mars, the past is written in stone—but the present is written in sand. Last week, Perseverance explored inactive megaripples to learn more about the wind-driven processes that are reshaping
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Pollinators play a vital role in fertilizing flowers, which grow
Visualization of some of the effects of cosmic rays on the DNA of microorganisms and a simplified theory of the process of the double-strand break DNA repair mechanism which causes
(A) Exposure experiment in the Atacama Desert 2 months after setup (Plate #1 was exposed 2 months, plate #2 4 months, and plate #3 8 months, an additional plate remained
At first glance, Saturn’s moon Enceladus seems rather unremarkable: it is much smaller than the Earth’s moon and is far away and completely covered in ice.
As an IT security administrator at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Mechele Elliott protects the information systems that support astronaut health and mission readiness. The encouragement of a family
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be a discovery machine, thanks to its wide field of view and resulting torrent of data. Scheduled to launch no later than May
“You’re gonna need a bigger TV.” That was my initial response to the very first episode of “Foundation” back in 2021. The big-budget adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s novels (which has
As missions like Kepler and TESS discovered more rocky exoplanets in recent years, scientists looked forward to the launch of the JWST. The powerful space telescope has the ability to
Color-color plot for asteroids from Sergeyev & Carry (2021), based on the parameter space defined by Ivezi´c et al. (2001) to identify asteroid families and surface compositions. The most likely