Humanity’s reach has extended from the surface of Earth to the very edge of our solar system, even to exoplanets far into space. What’s next in our journey into the unknown?Read More »
Technological improvements, including an advanced thermal protection system and innovative solar arrays, have helped to get this mission off the drawing board.Read More »Climate Change
Wary of misleading coverage, some climate researchers are avoiding publicizing results. Others prepare countermeasures to anticipate and combat skewed media reports.Read More »
New research suggests that excessive groundwater usage and damming have changed the natural risk of nuisance floods, for better or worse, in eastern U.S. coastal cities.Read More »Geology & Geophysics
Researchers explored past precipitation in India using shells from very large land snails collected there in 1918 and preserved in a British museum.Read More »Atmospheric Sciences
In a seismically quiet segment of Alaska’s subduction zone lie faults with structures similar to those of the system that caused the deadly Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Read More »Planetary Sciences
Names of mountains, plains, valleys, and craters honor human and technological pioneers, Pluto scientists, and underworld mythology from around the world.Read More »
