The Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission has sent back some of its first glimpses of water on Earth’s surface, including a detailed view of the Gulf Stream.

Scientists have discovered a new and renewable source of water on the moon for future explorers in lunar samples returned from a Chinese mission

The returning OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to return samples from asteroid Bennu in September, but NASA is already running rehearsals to get it right.

After 17 influential years at NASA, MIT alumna Ezinne Uzo-Okoro shapes space policy in the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy.

The Greenland Ice Sheet covers 1.7 million square kilometers (660,200 square miles) in the Arctic. If it melts entirely, global sea level would rise about 7 meters (23 feet), but scientists aren't sure how quickly the ice sheet could melt. Modeling tipping po…

The stricken Soyuz space capsule will return to Earth without a crew early on March 28 after losing all its coolant in a leak.

A second giant "hole," large enough to easily fit 20 Earths in one go, has torn the Sun's surface apart, heralding our star's most ferocious period during its 11-year cycle.

The Dragonfly rotorcraft-lander will be one of NASA's most diversely capable planetary exploration craft.

A close look at one of TRAPPIST-1's planets shows it's bare and baking.

Gas giants orbiting our sun show a clear pattern; the more massive the planet, the lower the percentage of "heavy" elements (anything other than hydrogen and helium) in the planet's atmosphere. But out in the galaxy, the atmospheric compositions of giant plan…

Get ready for a future where we can live in houses made from mushrooms and powered by our own poo.

Development of new drugs to effectively target the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB) could be one step closer following an important discovery from the University of Surrey.

Analysis of lunar soil samples shows spheres of glass hold water inside them, scientists have said.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land on the next tree. Many groups of mammals seem to have taken this evolutionary advice to heart. According to our newly published paper in Science Advances, unrelated animals may even have used the same blueprin…

If it smells too strongly of "chlorine", it might be a good idea to get out the pool.

Nickelates are a material class that has excited scientists because of its recently discovered superconducting ability, and now a new study led by Cornell has changed where scientists thought this ability might originate, providing a blueprint for how more fu…

They say April showers bring May flowers, but in less than a month, April is about to bring another type of shower to those in Colorado. One of the oldest

Why were two megamouth sharks seen together? We explain the jaws and effect.

A manifold learning method called T-PHATE is developed for high-dimensional time-series data. T-PHATE is applied to brain data (functional magnetic resonance imaging) where it faithfully denoises signals and unveils latent brain-state trajectories which corre…

A new study using the now-retired Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has pieced together the first detailed, wide-area map of water distribution on the moon. SOFIA was a joint project of NASA and the German Space Agency at DLR.

A quantum phase of matter detected in an iron-based superconductor could host Majorana zero modes—quasiparticles that may serve as building blocks for future quantum computers.

Scientific Reports - Comparative genome and phylogenetic analysis revealed the complex mitochondrial genome and phylogenetic position of Conopomorpha sinensis Bradley

Using NASA's Chandra spacecraft, an international team of astronomers has performed X-ray observations of the Cigar Galaxy. Results of the observational campaign, presented March 16 on the pre-print repository arXiv, deliver crucial information regarding diff…

Researchers at University of Oxford have recently created a quantum memory within a trapped-ion quantum network node. Their unique memory design, introduced in a paper in Physical Review Letters, has been found to be extremely robust, meaning that it could st…