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This engineer designed a device to make farm work easier
Mechanical engineer Juan Espinoza’s work in agriculture runs deep. In the 1990s, his parents immigrated to California from Mexico. With little formal education, the only work available to them at the time was picking crops such as almonds, grapes and roses. When Espinoza…
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Wave of Dust Rolls Through Texas
Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Wave of Dust Rolls Through Texas Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow…
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Solving Asteroid Bennu’s Mysteries
These X-ray computed tomography (XCT) scans of particles from asteroid Bennu show the most common types of crack networks observed in Bennu samples.
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A bonobo’s imaginary tea party hints that apes can pretend
Humans may not be the only primates with the power to imagine. A bonobo named Kanzi recently showed that he could keep track of make-believe juice and grapes during a pretend tea party. This finding adds to a growing body…
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Celebrating 100 Years Since Goddard’s Breakthrough Moment in Modern Rocketry
Dr. Robert H. Goddard and a liquid oxygen-gasoline rocket in the frame from which it was fired on March 16, 1926, at Auburn, Mass.
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The sea surface covered by seaweed is now as big as South America
What can stink up a beach, stall a boat and ruin a vacation? Too much seaweed. Floating mats of algae now cover a huge swath of the globe’s oceans. And they’re expanding at an accelerating rate, new data show. Since…
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Good Morning, Moon
Early morning sunlight illuminates the western wall of this unnamed crater, leaving deep shadows on the ground and in the interior. The image was taken on August 30, 2023, by LROC (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera).
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Artifacts From NASA’s Webb, Parker Solar Probe on View at Smithsonian
4 min read Artifacts From NASA’s Webb, Parker Solar Probe on View at Smithsonian NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Optical Telescope Element Pathfinder testing hardware, and a full-scale model of Parker Solar Probe are now on display inside the Smithsonian’s…
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Why do objects shatter the same way? Math solves the mystery
When an object shatters, something strange happens. It doesn’t matter whether the object is a dropped glass or plate. Or the nucleus of one atom smashing into another. Or even two asteroids colliding. When something splinters, the size of its…
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Webb Spots Details in Nearby Spiral Galaxy
Two powerful instruments of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope joined forces to create this scenic galaxy view. This spiral galaxy is named NGC 5134, and it’s located 65 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo.
