A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples already collected on the red planet.

Human brains still react to chimp voices, hinting at a deep evolutionary link in how we recognize sound.

With data collected months before its main survey is due to begin, the Vera C.

"These nine objects are special."

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

When a planet transits in front of the disk of its host star, it blocks some of the starlight and reduces slightly the brightness of the…

A team of researchers recently reported the discovery of AT2024wpp, an extremely energetic event involving a black hole and a massive star locked in a deadly cosmic...

Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over the supercontinent Gondwana, drying out many of the vast, shallow seas like a sponge and giving an "icehouse climate" that, together wit…

Hydroperoxides are strong oxidants that have a significant influence on chemical processes in the atmosphere. Now, an international research team involving the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) has shown that these substances also form from…

Crumb rubber, used as a fill material in many artificial turf fields, contains a complex and potentially dangerous miasma of chemicals.

Scientists have uncovered a way to manipulate the pathway in monkey brains that puts the brakes on motivation.

Mars habitats made from Martian soil? These microbes could make it happen.

In sending a car-sized rotorcraft to explore Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly mission will undertake an unprecedented voyage of scientific discovery. And

The once-great "megaberg" is just days or weeks away from complete disintegration.

Many people remember the solar storm of May 2024, which saw auroras spread into areas that very rarely get to see them.

In 1972, an Apollo 16 astronaut left a family photo on the Moon, a surprising and personal memento that still sparks curiosity today.

In high-intensity laser–matter interactions, including laser-induced particle acceleration, physicists generally want to work with the highest possible focused laser peak power, which is the ratio of energy per unit area to pulse duration. Therefore, for the …

Friday, Jan. 9, 2026: Your daily update on NASA's astronaut medical evacuation from the International Space Station.

SpaceX's Super Heavy booster is now stacked and ready for Starship's crucial 12th test flight, marking a significant step towards interplanetary missions and Mars exploration.

A new study demonstrates that ordinary espresso can effectively stain biological samples for electron microscopy. This household beverage offers a safe, low-cost alternative to the radioactive chemicals traditionally used in labs.

"We're not saying, and we can't say, that there's no life in Europa. What we're saying is that it's a harder proposition, based on our results."

Physicists from Trinity College Dublin believe new insights into the behavior of light may offer a new means of solving one of science's oldest challenges—how to turn heat into useful energy.

A nearly-complete adult jawbone, a partial adult jawbone, the jawbone of a child, a vertebrae and some teeth were discovered.

An astronomer who has made ground-breaking discoveries about millisecond pulsars, gamma-ray bursts and supernovae and an "exemplary" mathematical geophysicist specia...

The massive sunspot that sparked an "extreme" geomagnetic storm in May 2024 unleashed hundreds of other dangerous solar flares, including a hidden X-class outburst, a new paper reveals. The study sets a record for the longest continuous observation of a singl…