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Satellite sensors for global fire coverage
A global fire alert from space, FireSat sensors would be able to detect a fire anywhere on Earth within 15 minutes of its start and notify area emergency responders.
November 27, 2015
Mars to lose a moon, gain a ring
Mars’ large moon Phobos is slowly falling toward the planet. In 20-40 million years, it'll shatter, and its pieces will form a Saturn-like ring around Mars.
November 26, 2015
Blue Origin soft-lands a rocket!
And Jeff Bezos, which founded the private spaceflight company, sends his first-ever tweet. Congratulations, Blue Origin!
November 24, 2015
Paris climate summit: Why more women need seats at the table
Including more women in international climate negotiations will lead to better results. Here are 15 climate champions already making a difference
November 24, 2015
Weather-related natural disasters are up
With COP21 poised to begin in Paris, a new UN report suggests that weather-related disasters were nearly twice as frequent over the past decade as two decades ago.
November 23, 2015
The Cheshire Cat group of galaxies
A lot of dark matter lies between us and these distant galaxies. Light distortion from gravitational lensing creates the "cat."
November 23, 2015
El Niño déjà vu or something new?
NASA scientists weigh in on whether this year's El Niño will rival the monster El Niño of 1997-98.
November 23, 2015
A nearby dark matter galaxy?
Measurements of the velocities of just six stars in a galaxy of only 1,000 visible stars suggest the highest concentration of dark matter of any known galaxy. Holy grail? Or is there another explanation?
November 22, 2015
Tiny, ultracool star is super stormy
"If we lived around a star like this one, we wouldn't have any satellite communications. In fact, it might be extremely difficult for life to evolve at all ..." said Harvard astrophysicist.
November 20, 2015
Texas telescope to explore dark energy
A mysterious and largely unknown dark energy is thought to pervade our universe. A telescope in West Texas is poised to survey a million galaxies, to explore it.
November 20, 2015
