SCIENCE SNAPSHOTS

Daily Marvels in Scientific Exploration

Looking at license plates is a classic roadtrip activity. Even if you are not stuck spending hours in a car, you can still pass the time at home with a different of version of the license plate game.

In about five years time, a potentially hazardous asteroid will swing by Earth at an eerily close distance of less than 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers). During this rare encounter, Apophis will be t

JASPER COUNTY, S.C. A crash resulted in traffic being backed up for several miles in both directions of S Okatie Highway, near Levy, Thursday morning. Fire crews and law enforcement were seen at th

It would appear that the so-called "great instability" event that wreaked chaos among the planets, sending the gas giants careening through space until they settled into the orbits we know today, o

WASHINGTON A NASA Mars smallsat mission is slated to launch in late September on the first flight of Blue Origins New Glenn rocket, assuming the vehicle is ready in time. In a presentation at a meet

The venerable Hubble Space Telescope is like a gift that keeps on giving. Not only is it still making astronomical discoveries after more than thirty years in operation. It is also making discoveries

Well over 5,000 planets have been found orbiting other star systems. One of the satellites hunting for them is TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Astronomers using TESS think they are m

South Korea has successfully launched its first homegrown nano-cluster satellite, marking a significant milestone in the country's space technology development. The rocket carrying the satellite ro

Enlarge/ M82, the site of what's likely to be a giant flare from a magnetar. 5 Gamma rays are a broad category of high-energy photons, including everything with more energy than an X-ray. While the

A 3.7-billion-year-old record of our planet's ancient magnetism has been unearthed, providing evidence that Earth's magnetic field already existed very early in history. This discovery, however, is