NASA has delayed the launch of its Artemis II lunar fly-by mission by at least a month. Testing of the rocket and capsule, shown here on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida Sunday, revealed a number of issues.
This photo taken late Dec. 14, 2018, with a long time exposure shows a meteor streaking through the night sky over Myanmar during the Geminids meteor shower seen from Wundwin township near Mandalay city.
Beetles (Rhopalotria furfuracea) visit a male cone of the cycad plant Zamia furfuracea, whose cones produce heat during pollination. Michael Calonje hide caption toggle caption Michael Calonje Some of the earliest plants attracted pollinators by producing heat that made these plants glow with infrared light, according to a new set of experiments.
The Hubble Space Telescope drifts through space in a picture taken from the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1997. A study finds reflections cast by satellites could ruin images taken by telescopes.
On Earth, lightning can occur in turbulent clouds of volcanic ash. Now researchers have found evidence of sparks in Martian dust devils. NASA/JPL/Caltech/University of Arizona hide caption toggle caption NASA/JPL/Caltech/University of Arizona Mini-lightning strikes created by whirling dust devils on Mars have been detected accidentally by the microphone on board the Perseverance rover.
A new study finds that the bowhead whales produce loads of a protein that repairs the DNA in cells before they can become pre-cancerous.
James Watson, one of three scientists credited with discovering DNA's double-helix structure, has died at the age of 97. He died in hospice care on Long Island in New York. The Chicago-born researcher received the 1962 Nobel Prize alongside Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins.