Earth Is Warmer Today Than During 70 to 80 Percent of the Past 11,300 Years
With data from 73 ice and sediment core monitoring sites around the world, scientists have reconstructed Earth's temperature history back to the end of the last Ice Age.
Gravitational Telescope Creates Space Invader Mirage
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most powerful available to astronomers, but sometimes it too needs a helping hand. This comes in the form of Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which makes galaxy clusters act as natural lenses, amplifying the light coming from very distant galaxies.
In Greenland and Antarctic Tests, Yeti Helps Conquer Some 'Abominable' Polar Hazards
A century after Western explorers first crossed the dangerous landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic, researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) have successfully deployed a self-guided robot that uses ground-penetrating radar to map deadly crevasses hidden in ice-covered terrains.
Dragon Capsule Successfully Retrieved, Docked with Space Station Arm
Dragon has docked at the space station Sunday morning at 4:56 am Alaska Time. The capsule is scheduled to spend the next 22 days docked to the Harmony module of the spacecraft.