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Artist’s depiction of the genesis of modern birds during the Late Cretaceous Epoch, portraying their coexistence with dinosaurs and their…

About 10 percent of human-made mercury emissions into the atmosphere each year are the result of global deforestation, according to…

NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of…

Russell Glacier and proglacial area, near Kangerlussuaq, west Greenland. Credit: Jonathan Carrivick An estimated 11,000 sq miles or 28,707 sq…

In recent geological history, the so-called Quaternary period, there have been repeated ice ages and warm periods. Researchers are able…

A key NASA design milestone was recently completed by Collins Aerospace as the company works to develop a next-generation spacesuit…

The extent of what is now believed to be the largest and oldest network of pre-Hispanic cities was first unveiled…

Studying a rock is like reading a book. The rock has a story to tell, says Frieder Klein, an associate…

Astronaut Charles F. Bolden, STS-60 commander, sits at the commander’s station on the forward flight deck of the space shuttle…

Using data from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), Southwest Research Institute scientists have discovered, for the first time,…