The Day Science Fell for One of the Most Absurd Hoaxes Ever On December 18, 1912, a group of distinguished gentlemen gathered ...
German aerospace engineer Michaela Benthaus, a wheelchair user since 2018, is set to make history as the first person with a ...
In this image from Dec. 17, 1903, Orville Wright makes the first powered, controlled flight on Earth as his brother Wilbur looks on. Orville Wright covered 120 feet in 12 seconds during the first ...
Suspended above the Mediterranean Sea, Russia's Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft made its final approach to the International Space ...
Today, oceans cover about 70% of Earth’s surface. This stark contrast has long driven scientific interest in how water ...
On the freezing evening of December 16, 1920, in the rural highlands of northwest China, thousands of families were settling in for the night. In the loess caves and mud-brick homes of Gansu Province, ...
The new dataset, published in Earth System Science Data by 16 scientists, shows a significantly cooler Earth from the late ...
On this day in 1962, NASA’s Mariner 2 spacecraft made history with a close flyby of Venus, marking a major milestone in the early years of space exploration. The mission became America’s first ...
We know about fossils and rocks, ice cores and seabeds... but it turns out the Earth has been storing data - on climate, ...