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Why am I the one mosquitos always bite?
Scientists know body odors play a role in who mosquitoes bite most. But they don’t yet completely understand which odors mosquitoes find most attractive.
September 19, 2014
Dawn spacecraft to Ceres recovers after malfunctions
A collision with a high-energy radiation particle may have corrupted software running in Dawn's main computer, and sent the spacecraft into safe mode.
September 18, 2014
Tornado Alley storm season starting and ending earlier
Peak tornado activity typically occurs in the region from early May to early July. It has moved an average of seven days earlier over the past six decades.
September 17, 2014
Racing toward Pluto, spacecraft spies tiny moon Hydra
The New Horizons spacecraft - due to encounter Pluto in July 2015 - has spotted Pluto's small, faint, outermost known moon, called Hydra.
September 17, 2014
Merging galaxies can produce disk galaxies
Astronomers thought mergers formed giant elliptical galaxies. Now, for at least 24 observed galaxies, mergers have formed flattened, circular disks of dust and gas.
September 17, 2014
New map of 15 years of CO2 emissions
An international research team has developed a new system to quantify 15 years of CO2 emissions, every hour, for the entire planet, down to the city scale.
September 17, 2014
Earthquake-induced landslide at Seward Glacier
NASA scientists were in the right place at the right time this summer to capture photos of a fresh landslide, caused by an Alaska earthquake.
September 16, 2014
New catalog of visible Milky Way charts 219 million stars
Astronomers spent 10 years charting stars brighter than 20th magnitude – that's about 1 million times fainter than can be seen with the human eye.
September 16, 2014
Bigger than T. rex, this dinosaur hunted in water
Spinosaurus was the largest known predatory dinosaur to roam the Earth. Scientists now say that it was also the first truly semiaquatic dinosaur.
September 15, 2014
ESA announces landing site on Rosetta’s comet
Rosetta spacecraft has been moving in tandem with its comet since August. On Monday, ESA announced the site of a November landing.
September 15, 2014
