News

  1. Planetary Science

    Reviewers see red over recent Mars programs

    NASA's two most recent missions to Mars failed because they were underfunded, managed by inexperienced people, and insufficiently tested, according to a report released March 28.

    By Ron Cowen
  2. Earth

    Titanic iceberg sets sail from Antarctica

    An iceberg about the size of Connecticut recently split off from the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

    By Tina Hesman Saey

  3. Hey, we’re richer than we thought!

    The latest inventory of life in the United States has turned up an extra 100,000 species of plants, animals, and fungi.

    By Susan Milius

  4. Fading to black doesn’t empower fish

    Field studies of three-spined stickleback fish dash a textbook example of the theory of how one species can take on a competitor's characteristics.