Researchers identified simple behavioral rules that allow these tiny creatures to collaboratively build elaborate structures - rafts and towers - with no one in charge.
Asgardia's 1st satellite - Asgardia-1 - will launch aboard a NASA mission to ISS later this summer. "Asgardians" are invited to send their personal data - a photo or a file of their choosing – to space with it.
Ongoing drought - and increasing temperatures - have reduced water flow in the Colorado River, with more dramatic reductions expected. This ongoing, unprecedented event threatens water supplies in cities in the U.S. West and some of the most productive agricultural lands anywhere in the world.
Featured in National Geographic and Nature, Canadian amateur astronomer Christian Sasse explains how he created his unique star trails, by superimposing images.
Members of the EarthSky community - including scientists, as well as science and nature writers from across the globe - weigh in on what's important to them.