2020 has its issues, but it continues to be a great year for stargazers.

Stay in Washington long enough and some of the smart folks you know become George Marshall and James Baker.

Deep in the Mars-like landscape of Utah's red-rock desert, a smooth, tall structure was found during a helicopter survey of bighorn sheep. (Nov. 24)

Architecture is defined by its context. This holds especially true when buildings are located in harsh climates and must respond to natural conditions. This week’s curated selection of the Best focuses on designs located at the intersection of nature and the built environment. Drawn from all over the world, they represent proposals .

NASA’s Curiosity rover has found a series of symmetrical, 10-m- (33-foot-) high gravel ridges - sedimentologic evidence of ancient giant floods - in Gale Crater on Mars. “We identified megafloods for the first time using detailed sedimentological data observed by the rover Curiosity,” said Dr. Alberto G. Fairén, an astrobiologist in the Department of Astronomy [...]

Scientists already know that Mars wasn’t always the global desert it is today. Now, new data collected by NASA’s Curiosity Rover reveal that the Red Planet actually had significantly more surface in its distant past than previously thought. A study published in the science journal Nature earlier this month pointed to evidence of “raging megafloods” that washed Mars’ surface...

Nasa has been developing a huge rocket called the Space Launch System (SLS) to launch astronauts to the Moon - and eventually Mars. Set to make its debut in November 2021, the SLS is the most powerful launch vehicle built since the 1960s. Nasa has plans to send a man and woman to the lunar surface by 2024, in the first landing with humans since Apollo 17 in 1972. In the last 20 years, astronauts have been making routine trips to and from the International Space Station (ISS). But the Moon is nearly 1,000 times further than the ISS; getting astronauts there requires a monster rocket. The SLS is the modern equivalent of the Saturn V, the huge launcher built during the Apollo era. Like the...

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"That's no otter," says woman who spotted the wrong-way ocean predator in Eastham, Massachusetts.

Kim Zapata decided to capture video proof of the active marsupial.