CALIFORNIA—(ENEWSPF)—February 5, 2018 By: Elizabeth Landau In the year since NASA announced the seven Earth-sized planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system, scientists have been working hard to better understand these enticing worlds just 40 light-years away. READ MORE
Greenbelt, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—February 2, 2018 By: Miles Hatfield On Jan. 20, 2018, amateur astronomer Scott Tilley detected an unexpected signal coming from what he later postulated was NASA’s long-lost IMAGE satellite, which had not been in READ MORE
CALIFORNIA—(ENEWSPF)—February 1, 2018 By: Andrew Good A new self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle on Vera Rubin Ridge, which it has been investigating for the past several months. Directly behind the rover READ MORE
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 30, 2018 By: Tricia Talbert If you live in the western part of North America, Alaska, and the Hawaiian islands, you might set your alarm early the morning of Wednesday, Jan. 31 for READ MORE
MARYLAND—(ENEWSPF)—January 26, 2018 By: Phil Sneiderman Pluto hogs the spotlight in the continuing scientific debate over what is and what is not a planet, but a less conspicuous argument rages on about the planetary status READ MORE
Greenbelt, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—January 23, 2018 By Elizabeth Zubritsky The lunar eclipse on Jan. 31 will give a team of scientists a special opportunity to study the Moon using the astronomer’s equivalent of a heat-sensing, or thermal, READ MORE
Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Millions of Americans drink alcohol at dangerously high levels. Are you one of these? Nearly 32 million adults in the United States (13 percent of the U.S. population aged 18 and older) consumed READ MORE
Faster computers with more storage will boost accuracy, efficiency of U.S. weather models Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—January 9, 2018 By: Susan Buchanan NOAA’s combined weather and climate supercomputing system will be among the 30 fastest in the READ MORE
Study could shed light on patterns for current mass extinction CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—January 8, 2018 By: Louise Lerner Sixty-five million years ago, clouds of ash choked the skies over Earth. Dinosaurs, along with about half of all READ MORE
CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—December 22, 2017 By: Louise Lerner Despite the many impressive discoveries humans have made about the universe, scientists are still unsure about the birth story of our solar system. Scientists with the University of Chicago READ MORE
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