As a rocket revolution sets the stage for astronauts to explore Mars, advances in bioengineering could help them survive the cosmic bullets that pelt the Martian dunes.

NASA leadership casts doubt on Texas efforts to bring Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston.

Robot maps living oasis nearly 4.000 meters deep in the Arctic, revealing deep gas hydrates and unexpected biodiversity.

"It's really not a question of robotic exploration or human exploration," Ehlmann said. "It is an 'and' — it's robotic and human exploration and how we do these best together."

The fruit of Africa's marble berry (Pollia condensata) is a true living gemstone, sporting a stunning metallic blue sheen that never fades.

The Curiosity rover finds pure sulfur crystals on Mars after breaking through a rock in the Gediz Vallis channel, intriguing NASA scientists.

Many everyday chemicals can damage beneficial gut bacteria and potentially fuel antibiotic resistance, prompting calls to rethink chemical safety testing. A sweeping laboratory analysis of synthetic chemicals has uncovered 168 substances that can harm benefic…

A mysterious sound picked up by NASA’s Mars rover is sparking new questions about the Red Planet’s hidden forces.

In an unexpected place, scientists have uncovered footprints that don’t quite fit the story we thought we knew.

There are billions of dollars in it for companies able to kickstart mining operations, even if such returns are still years away.

In a first-of-its-kind experiment, scientists have successfully imaged atomic oxygen in liquid water, revealing behavior previously thought unmeasurable.

Stronger auroral activity is expected amid geomagnetic storms, forecasters said.

From nuclear fusion milestones to rediscovered species, these are some of 2025’s most striking scientific breakthroughs.

Preserved with exceptional detail in amber from the Cretaceous period, the specimen provides rare physical evidence that early spider ancestors once possessed tails, something that had only been hypothesized until now.

Ammonia (NH3) is a colorless chemical compound comprised of nitrogen and hydrogen that is widely used in agriculture and in industrial settings. Among other things, it is used to produce fertilizers, as well as cleaning products and explosives.

A new theoretical study argues that many standard beliefs about consciousness are rooted in a misleading concept of how the brain functions.

As space travel advances, colonization of other planets edges closer to reality. But should we spread to other parts of the galaxy?

China's hypergravity centrifuge CHIEF1900 has a capacity of 1900g-tonnes and dethrones compatriot CHIEF1300.

Mosasaurs were the apex predators of the oceans during the reign of the dinosaurs, but new research reveals dinosaurs weren't safe from them in rivers either.

Using the Einstein Probe (EP), astronomers have detected a new X-ray transient event, which turned out to be an X-ray flare from the star PM J23221-0301 located about 150 light years away. The finding was reported in a research paper published December 18 on …

New research sharpens understanding of the hidden symmetry in a mysterious superconductor. Superconductors are materials that allow electrical current to flow without any resistance, a property that typically appears only at extremely low temperatures. While …

This enormous protoplanetary disk is confounding astronomers.

We provide a reassessment of the hypothesis of ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene (Maastrichtian–Danian) boundary, based on new data from the lower Danian Cerithium Limestone Member at Stevns Klint, eastern Denmark. The occurrence of this unit …

It captures the passage of time on the Red Planet.

The NASA Artemis II mission, set to lift off as soon as February, will mark the first time astronauts have aimed to venture beyond near-Earth orbit since 1972.