Revealed: How Mars Lost Its Atmosphere
The Red Planet lost its protective blanket of air billions of years ago. Now astronomers are certain why
The Red Planet lost its protective blanket of air billions of years ago. Now astronomers are certain why
Forty-four years after the first moon walk, a bill before Congress would protect the Apollo landing sites as historical parks — and remind us of what we once were
Never mind how well spoken you might be now, you will never again be as adept with languages as the day you were born. Indeed, the youngest person in any room is almost always the best linguist there too. There are 6,800 …
Every month produces a flood of pictures from the cosmos, but some are much more equal than others. Here are the past month’s 10 best.
A new study reveals just how close humanity is to being an interstellar species
The best two things you can say about this video NASA just posted of its proposed asteroid capture mission is that it’s insanely cool to watch and it will cost you only 4 minutes and 42 seconds of your life. The worst you can say is that it will cost taxpayers billions of dollars in development costs before it is ultimately discarded as …
A new video tells the tale of an unlikely bit of astronomical forensics
On the 50th anniversary of Valentina Tereshkova’s history-making flight, the female astronaut is no longer a surprising thing
A new study of mouse brains leads to new insights — and perhaps new treatments — for a common disorder
Few people have mastered the art of the haggle. It all starts with avoiding round numbers