All Stories by Nadia Drake
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Lopped Off
Removal of top predators trickles through the food web.
- Space
HiRISE clocks hurricane-speed winds on Mars
Orbiting camera measures swirling gusts in dust devils.
- Space
Saturn’s rings tell a comet’s tale
Ripples made by a celestial impact 600 years ago can still be seen today.
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- Space
Miniplanet sports megapeak
The solar system’s second tallest mountain hides out in a crater at the south pole of the asteroid Vesta.
- Space
Longer cosmic ruler based on black holes
A new method promises to improve the precision of extreme astronomical distance measurements.
- Space
Messenger from Mercury
NASA orbiter returns images of odd landforms on the solar system's innermost planet.
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- Space
On Kepler-16b, shadows come in pairs
Astronomers discover a planet that orbits a pair of stars.
- Space
Planet search finds lots of little guys
The latest collection of extrasolar bodies to be revealed is rich in worlds not much bigger than Earth.
- Space
Super-Earths may come in two flavors
As more exoplanets are discovered, evidence emerges that worlds can be either fluffy or dense.
- Astronomy
Star goes boom, telescopes zoom
Astronomers have spotted a supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy, the nearest such stellar explosion in decades.
