A little over a year ago, and about 150 million kilometers (93 million miles) from where you’re currently reading this, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe quietly made history by safely flying t…

Christopher Reddy helped to quantify the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a stressful experience that changed his view of what it means to be a well-rounded scientist and person.

Mars is one of the most explored components of the solar system, yet there are always more discoveries to unveil on Earth's planetary neighbor. On Earth we are able to take direct measurements to understand our planet's meteorological activities, but on Mars …

The Sun will eventually expand into a red giant, but the Earth will be in trouble long before that

A scale model of the Mars Ascent Vehicle is tested for in the trisonic wind tunnel at Marshall. The tunnel’s test sections are only 14 inches in height and w...

Now that fueling and testing are complete, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is ready to meet its ride – a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The launch is now targeting 10:34 a.m. EDT on Thursday, October 5 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida a…

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new exoplanet orbiting a distant star. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-1420 b, has an exceptionally low density. The finding is reported in…

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Monday Charity Weeden will serve as associate administrator for the agency’s Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy (OTPS), effective immediately. Weeden succeeds Bhavya Lal, who left the agency in July, and Ellen …

Scientists from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, both Germany, have successfully developed nanomaterials using a so-called bottom-up approach. As reported in the journal ACS Nano, they exploit t…

New research redefines how black holes feed, challenging classic theories and solving cosmic mysteries.

A team of scientists, led by Dr. David Hsieh from the California Institute of Technology, have observed evidence of stable Hubbard excitons in a photo-doped antiferromagnetic Mott insulator. The findings of their study are published in Nature Physics.

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“Scientists think that if we didn’t fire our engines back away from the asteroid that we might have just lost the spacecraft.”Astronauts behind the discovery...

The eighth continent of the world is almost entirely submerged underwater.

Dolly-style animal cloning underpins CRISPR livestock, but changes loom for the field.

Wikipedia lists the earliest carpentry assemblage ever found as a water well cover carved from oak boards from 5,600 BCE.

In recent years, both private companies and governments have set their sights on the stars, not just for exploration but to alleviate resource shortages on Earth. India, in a groundbreaking achievement, successfully conducted a cost-effective lunar mission, r…

An invisible halo of misaligned dark matter could explain the warps at the Milky Way's edges.

Village of Depew Mayor Kevin Peterson's second request stemmed from a personal experience at the intersection about two weeks ago.

Historically, the Sahara was periodically vegetated, with rivers, lakes, and water-dependent animals such as hippos thriving before it became the dry desert we know today.

Fungi in space have been a plot point in Star Trek: Discovery, but they are also a very real problem for astronauts and space stations. United Nations co-sponsored testing by a team from Macau in China subjected fungi to hypergravity with ESA’s fast-spinning …

Background Salmonellosis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and one of the most frequent etiologies of diarrhea in the world. Mortality due to Salmonellosis in Latin America still poorly understood, and there is a lack of studies that evaluate resist…

Our planet has changed a lot over billions of years, from the location of the continents to the makeup of the atmosphere, and a new study looks in detail at the history of the Sahara desert – which wasn't always an arid wilderness.

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Meteorites could show us the perfect chemical models we need to end the natural resource crisis — but we don’t have to leave Earth to mi...