These Oil Wells in Iraq Have Been Burning For Months
A camera aboard the Landsat 8 satellite has been tracking the progress of oil fires in Iraq that have been burning since June. Read More >>
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A camera aboard the Landsat 8 satellite has been tracking the progress of oil fires in Iraq that have been burning since June. Read More >>
A team of Belgian researchers has closed the case on the origins of a mysterious smudge. Long believed to be bird poo, they found that it is bees wax.
Scientists working in British Columbia have uncovered the fossils of a small Cretaceous-era pterosaur, showing this extinct flying reptile came in travel size.
The only proof you need that the Sun is the one and true master of our solar system is this never-before-seen view of a torrent of charged particles bursting out of our star’s corona. Read More >>
The unusually strong quake will likely draw further scrutiny to the practice of disposing oil and gas field wastewater deep underground.
Other countries are now expected to follow suit.
In Infinitude, abstract, geometrical shapes condense into stars, which explode into supernovae, sending an asteroid careening through space towards a nascent Earth.
The first close-up images of Jupiter as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft are finally rolling in—and the gas giant before us is barely recognisable. Read More >>
New research suggests that Kent’s trademark glasses actually might work as a disguise—at least around people who don’t know him well.
When NASA cancelled its Mars Insight mission late last year, it wasn’t clear if the lander would ever make it to the surface of the Red Planet. Today, that lander got a second chance.
For the record, planet Earth is still in the Holocene.
Quaoar blimey.
A story hundreds of millions of years in the making.
California's Ivanpah solar plant kills around 6,000 birds a year.
So-called "food puzzles" apparently help moggies stave off a number of domestication-related health problems.
As Hermine continues to menace Florida’s northwest coast, it officially crossed over into hurricane territory yesterday afternoon.
