SCIENCE SNAPSHOTS

Daily Marvels in Scientific Exploration

NASA confirmed the object that crashed through the roof of a Naples, Fla., home in March was the remains of a cargo pallet of depleted batteries jettisoned from the International Space Station in 202

Lampreys are the stuff of nightmares, complete with long, slimy bodies; circular mouths filled with teeth; and parasitic tendencies. But lampreys are also vertebrates, which means they have backbon

An abundance of gases, including carbon and oxygen, are being stripped away fromVenus' atmosphere, according to flyby data from Europe's BepiColombo space probe. This data was obtained as the Mercur

Three needs are famously fundamental to survival: food, water, and shelter. According to new research, ancient humans had at least two of those three needs met by a nearly mile-long lava tube about 7

NASA has finally confirmed its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission will be heading to Titan, one of Saturn's Moons, meaning the team behind the project can finalize its design and get to work building the s

Spend long enough on the Internet and you will likely be met with a post informing you that the speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second, and the latitude of the Great Pyramid of Giza is 29.97

NASA has shared the timeline for when the $10,000 quadrillion asteroid will be brought down to our planet. Last year, the space agency announced that it was going to set off for the faraway asteroid

"Our study shows that hybridization can drive the evolution of new species," says Rosser, the lead author of the study and National Geographic Explorer. Rossers team estimates that although the two p

Two Yale faculty members a trailblazing astrophysicist and a leading immunologist are part of Time Magazines 2024 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Priyamvada Natarajan, whose th

The telescope has 56 aluminum X-ray concentrators. Each concentrator has a set of nested mirrors, designed to skip X-rays into a detector. In front of the concentrator lies a thin filter, called a th