The technical snafu forced NASA to briefly delay science operations for the telescope.

For the first time, researchers at UC San Diego have shown that changes in gene expression happen almost entirely during the transcription stage while the cells are growing. The researchers have provided a simple quantitative formula linking regulatory contro…

A year on since the historic launch of the most powerful infrared telescope in human history, we admire and explore some of the best images it delivered in 2022.

The technical snafu forced NASA to briefly delay science operations for the telescope.

A groundbreaking seismic study has uncovered a vast web of magma reservoirs some 25 miles beneath Hawaii. "My mind was just blown."

When you're just a wee squishy frog trying to make your way in the wild jungles of Central and South America, you need to have some survival tricks up your clammy little sleeve.

NGC 1566 is a barred spiral galaxy 40 million light years away, and it was one of the James Webb Space Telescope's first batch of science targets.

After circling the moon, Orion is on a truck and should arrive at NASA's Kennedy Space Center by the end of the year.

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Mum Najma Ahmadi is begging the Government to offer refugees the chance of a better life – without ­having to put themselves in the hands of callous people smugglers

An international team of researchers has recently demonstrated for the first time the use of a new lensless ultrafast X-Ray method to image phase transitions. This new method described in Nature Physics enables the direct observation of the dynamics of quantu…

Earlier this week, Arianespace’s Vega-C rocket suffered a fatal anomaly that resulted in the loss of two satellites. The rocket,...

Flights of the new rocket were suspended after the recent mission failure, creating a serious headache for the European space industry.

The Webb Space Telescope’s instruments have been in safe mode intermittently since December 7, but scientific operations resumed earlier this...

The $10 billion observatory didn’t collect many images in December, due to a now-resolved software issue.

Kepler-1658b is slowly spiraling toward a fiery demise

The crewed Artemis 5 mission to the Moon won’t happen until 2028 at the earliest, but the mission and those...

The new-and-improved RS-25 engine blasted its way through the hot-fire test, which ended sooner than expected.

JPL’s cutting-edge instrument, which will provide insights into the lunar water cycle and composition of the Moon’s surface, has been incorporated into the small satellite.

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Institute for Cooperative Upcycling of Plastics (iCOUP) have developed a new method for recycling high-den

The ability to stop asteroids from hitting the earth tops Luke O’Neill’s list of scientific innovations in 2022.

Argonne researchers put their stamp on 2022 with accomplishments as varied as quantum science, wearable medical sensors, and climate change resilience and recov

The consulting engineering firm is NASA's largest services contractor.