700,000 Years of Woolly Wonders: Unraveling the Genetic Yarn of Mammoth Evolution

A New Look at the Climate of the West Coast: Only a Few Thousand Years Old

50 years ago today, the Pioneer 11 spacecraft set sail for the outer solar system. And 4 million years from now, the probe — which carries a gold-plated plaque meant to help identify humanity’s place in the cosmos — will pass very near the star Lambda Aquilae, located some 125 light-years away.

Ingredients for life discovered in Perseus molecular cloud in space 1,000 light-years from Earth