NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...

I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...

When one considers the term “Continent of Science,” one may think of an area filled with the presence of universities or other hubs of science or tech.

Far below the surface of the western Pacific Ocean, scientists have uncovered a geological system that reshapes how you may ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed everything—reshaping Earth, forming the Moon, and scattering clues across ...

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research ...

The National Academies will hold a workshop on the opportunities and challenges, including the ethical development and use, of using machine learning and artificial intelligence (ML/AI) to advance ...

Scientists like to refer to our planet as residing in the “Goldilocks zone,” where it’s neither too hot nor too cold, and just the right distance away from the Sun to support life. But in the classic ...