Tag: science
NASA ‘Planet Hunter’ has launched
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched yesterday on a first-of-its-kind mission to find worlds beyond our solar system, including some that could support life. TESS, expected to find thousands […]
1981 ‘Buckskin Girl’ murder victim identified thanks to DNA technology
Cold case murder solved with Arkansas woman being identified after more than 30 years. On April 24, 1981, the body of a female homicide victim was discovered on Greenlee Road, […]
NASA explains Earth’s recent record carbon dioxide spike
A new NASA study provides space-based evidence that Earth’s tropical regions were the cause of the largest annual increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration seen in at least 2,000 years. […]
Recommended safety tips for viewing Aug. 21 solar eclipse
For the first time in 99 years, a total solar eclipse will occur across the entire continental United States; and NASA is preparing to share this experience of a lifetime […]
